Abstract: The system provides both electronic signature and message verification with a minimum of excess coding information on an instantaneous basis and is easily restartable in a store and forward environment. The system is based on the concept of a vault or central authority. The vault is in essence a physically secured Authenticator designed as a hardware automation which is not under control of any operating system. The system is a terminal based network wherein all terminals or users may communicate directly or through a central CPU. All secure electronic signature verification transactions must be transacted through the central facility which includes said vault. The vault and all terminals include an identical key-controlled block-cipher cryptographic facility wherein each user at a terminal has access only to his own key and wherein the vault has access to all user keys.

Abstract: The system disclosed comprises a dual function cryptographic system capable of operating in either a stream or block cipher mode. Further, with minimal alteration the system is capable of performing either encoding or decoding functions. The system requires three inputs, the first of which is the raw data, and the second two inputs comprise a first and a second unique user supplied key. One of the keys is utilized to control a permutation function for both the stream and block cipher mode and the other key is combined directly with the data in the block cipher mode prior to a series of non-linear transformations. In the stream encipherment mode of operation the second key is entered in its entirety into the system where it is successively and continuously transformed as a function of said first key whereby the function of said system becomes a pseudo-random number generator whose output is serially combined with the raw data to form the stream enciphered cryptogram.

Abstract: This is a cipher system for enciphering a stream of binary data by means of a product cipher. A clear message represented in a binary data format is transformed into a cipher message by operating on each bit of clear information with a complex modulo-two addition function. This function is dependent on previous internal cipher digits transmitted and varies for each message bit processed. The function is developed by continually shifting a key matrix under the control of a varying control matrix. The control matrix is formed from the sub-product of the complex function developed in generating each cipher bit.

Abstract: A cryptographic system for enciphering a block of binary data under the control of a unique key consisting of a set of binary symbols. A clear message represented in binary data format is transformed into a cipher message (and vise versa) by operating on blocks of clear information utilizing the operations of directional shifting of a derivative form of said clear data in a multidimensional matrix shifting and storage device. Further, cryptographic power is introduced to the system by performing a non-affine substitution operation during a shift operation on segments of information stored in said matrix. The shifting function, as well as the substitution function, is a function of said unique key. The system is further mathematically invertible, that is, the same hardware may be utilized for both encipherment and decipherment by merely reversing the sequence of operations.

Abstract: This is a cipher system for enciphering a stream of binary data by means of a product cipher. A clear message represented in a binary data format is transformed into a cipher message by operating on each bit of clear information with a complex modulo-two addition function. This function is dependent on previous internal cipher digits transmitted and varies for each message bit processed. The function is developed by continually shifting a key matrix under the control of a varying control matrix. The control matrix is formed from the sub-product of the complex function developed in generating each cipher bit.