ITERATIVE ENCRYPTION AND RANDOM GENERATION AND SERIALIZATION OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC FUNCTIONS

摘要

Cryptography provides a wide variety of functions. For example, encryption provides data confidentiality and signatures provide data integrity. In one embodiment, a plurality of encryption functions is iteratively applied to produce a ciphertext. In one embodiment, a data sequence describing a cryptographic function is processed by a reader who outputs the cryptographic function. The data sequence may be stored or transmitted and the cryptographic function may be used for cryptographic purposes. In another embodiment, a generator produces random cryptographic functions.