Crypto coding system based on the turbo codes with secret keys

Abstract

In 1997, the US National Science Foundation recognized the need to unite research communities together to solve mutual problems, overcome challenges, future development and practical applications of cryptography and error correction coding. Recent works in this area are connected with turbo codes, which have a special ability to provide error correction characteristics of the information transmission close to theoretically obtained values. Besides, they are used for television (DVB-RCS, DVB-RCT), wireless local networks (WiMAX), software-defined radio systems, mobile (3G, 4G, Inmarsat) and space (CCSDS) communications etc. In this article is presented the crypto coding system based on turbo codes with secret keys used by interleavers. All calculations are performed during data encoding, which reduces the computational complexity of data pre-encryption. The necessary mathematical apparatus was presented, the security level of the communication system was estimated, a simulation of the error correction characteristics was performed, and multimedia information was processed. The working characteristics of the classical and proposed turbo codecs do not differ statistically. The results can be used in communication systems for various functional purposes.

Keywords

• Information protection
• Encryption
• Error correction coding
• Turbo decoding
• Joint encryption/encoding
• Secret keys