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 International Journal of Emerging Technology in Computer Science & Electronics (IJETCSE)
ISSN: 0976-1353 Volume 13 Issue 4 –MARCH 2015.

A SECURE RSA FOR DATA

TRANSMISSION IN WIRELESS SENSOR
NETWORKS
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Dr.K.Sheela Sobana Rani, 2R.Abiya Neethu, 3R.Aiswarya, 4S.Archana, 5M.Divya Bharathi
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Associate Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sri Ramakrishna Institute of
Technology,Tamil Nadu,India
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Student, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering,Sri Ramakrishna Institute of
Technology,Tamil Nadu,India

ABSTRACT between a source and destination pair, the messages

This paper is based on data transfer in military
networks through cipher text-hybrid algorithm. Usage
of Random Symmetric Algorithm (RSA) is a effective
means of time consumption and data security. In the
existing system retrieval of information is done through
an intermediate node and by providing key mechanism.
In the proposed system transfer of the cipher text is
obtained from Random Symmetric Algorithm directly
from base station to soldiers, thereby minimizing the
time consumed. In addition to it an alert system is also
being provided to the soldier.
Index terms-
RSA,encryption,decryption,alert system
from the source node may need to wait in the
intermediate nodes for a substantial amount of time
until the connection would be eventually established.
Security of data in army stations is an important
issue. In early systems, at the time of information
transmission between two army stations, it can be
hacked by terrorists, spies and enemies.
Cryptography is a very important system employed
for this purpose. There are various types of
algorithms available for encryption and decryption of
the data and new algorithms are evolving.
Military cryptographic systems must meet number of
practical considerations:

I. INTRODUCTION 1) An ideal cryptographic system for military

Mobile nodes in military environments such as a
battlefield or a hostile region are likely to suffer from
intermittent network connectivity and frequent
partitions. Disruption-tolerant Network (DTN)
technologies are becoming successful solutions that
allow wireless devices carried by soldiers to
communicate with each other and access the
confidential information or command reliably by
exploiting external storage nodes. Some of the most
challenging issues in this scenario are the
enforcement of authorization policies and the policies
update for secure data retrieval. In many military
networks scenarios, connections of wireless devices
carried by the soldiers may be temporarily
disconnected by jamming, environmental factors and
mobility, especially when they operate in hostile
environments. Typically end to end connection
purposes is a single all-purpose system which is
practical for use from the highest headquarters to the
individual soldier on the battlefield. It is secure no
matter how much message traffic is sent using the
system. It is easy to use without special training. It
presents no logistics problems in keeping the users
supplied with the system’s keys. It operates under all
weather conditions, on all means of communication,
and in the dark.
2) Cryptographic system selection for military use
depends on much more than its degree of security.
While protecting information from unfriendly eyes, a
system must still allow communications to take place
rapidly,to be reliable and to be usable by all who
need to communicate. It must be usable under all
conditions. For example, a system requiring an hour
of pains-taking encryption would go unused by a

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combat military force on the move. 3)A system that
has no tolerance for errors in its use would be
inappropriate for soldiers under fire in severe weather
conditions. 4)A system that only supports a low
volume of messages would be inappropriate for a
major message centre handling thousands of
messages daily. 5) A system that requires expensive,
sophisticated equipment would be inappropriate for a
military force that can barely afford to buy
ammunition. No single system meets all the
requirements of security, speed, reliability, and cost.
The need for security must be balanced against the
practical requirements when systems are selected for
use. Breakable systems are found today, despite
technological advances, because of these practical
requirements. Almost any cryptographic system,
given enough time and resources can eventually be
solved. The only exception to this is a system which
uses absolutely random changing keys with every
character encrypted and never repeated. Such a
system can be achieved under very limited
conditions, but is in practice impossible on any large
scale. Even the most sophisticated machine or
computer based cryptographic system cannot produce
random, nonrepeating keys. The requirement for each
communicating machine to generate the same keys
prevented truly random keys. At best, a machine
system can produce keys by so sophisticated a
process that it appears to be random and resists
efforts to recover the key generation process.Given
these practical considerations, a military system is
expected to delay successful analysis, not prevent it.
When the system is finally solved, the information
obtained must have lost all its value.
II. RELATED WORKS
A study in [1] is conducted for different secret key
algorithms such as DES, 3DES, AES, and Blowfish.
They were implemented, and their performance was
compared by encrypting input files of varying
contents and sizes. The algorithms were tested on two
different hardware platforms, to compare their
performance. They had conducted it on two different
machines: P-II 266 MHz and P-4 2.4 GHz. The
results showed that Blowfish had a very good
performance compared to other algorithms. Also it
showed that AES had a better performance than
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3DES and DES. It also shows that 3DES has almost
1/3 throughput of DES, or in other words it needs 3
times than DES to process the same amount of data.
A study in [2] is conducted for different popular
secret key algorithms such as RC4, AES, and XOR.
They were implemented, and their performance was
compared by encrypting for real time video streaming
of varying contents. The results showed; encryption
delay overhead using AES is less than the overhead
using RC4 and XOR algorithm. Therefore, AES is a
feasible solution to secure real time video
transmissions. In the present work[3]the authors
introduced a new symmetric key cryptographic
method for both encryption and decryption of any file
such as binary file text file etc. They considered the
size of key matrix as 65536 and in each cell they
stored two character patterns instead of one character
with the introduction of a square key matrix of size
256x256. In this paper[4], various techniques of
security of data and one the algorithm using
Polyalphabetic substitution cipher are discussed.
Security of data in army stations is an important
issue. In early systems, at the time of information
transmission between two army stations, it can be
hacked by terrorists, spies and enemies.
Cryptography is a very important system employed
for this purpose. There are various types of
algorithms available for encryption and decryption of
data and new algorithms are evolving. Polyalphabetic
substitution cipher is a strong algorithm used for
security of data in army stations. The algorithm [5] is
designed using combination of two symmetric
cryptographic techniques. These two primitives can
be achieved with the help of Advanced Encryption
Standard (AES) and Data Encryption Standard
(DES). This new hybrid cryptographic algorithm has
been designed for better security with integrity. The
security [6] is provided based on the AES prototype
cryptographic algorithm. An advanced key
management scheme is used to enhance the security
of the system. The paper presents [7] an approach to
develop a Hybrid Cryptographic algorithm using
combination of two symmetric cryptographic
techniques which are AES and DES. In this paper [8]
,Encryption algorithms and methods are among those
technologies that are less apparent to casual or
business users, but are central to virtually every fund
transfer, business to business transfer or internal
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company data input and output today. This paper PROPOSED ALGORITHM FOR KEY
examines evolution and economic significance of GENERATION
NIST’s Data Encryption Standard (DES) program. In
this paper[9] a block encryption standard for transfer 1. Select or create any private key of size
of data is proposed to achieve the different goals of 256x2 bits or 64 characters.
security that is availability confidentiality and 2. Size of the selected key will be varying from
integrity. The algorithm is based on symmetric key 128 bits to 512 bits or 16 to 64 characters.
encryption approach .In this paper[10] the advanced 3. Use of 64*8 key means 512 bits in length.
encryption standard is used for error detection in an 4. Divide 64 bytes into 4 blocks of 16 bytes
efficient manner .hardware implementation can be like Key_Block1, Key_Block2,
done in the most efficient and appropriate manner. Key_Block3, Key_Block4.
5. Apply XOR operation between Block1 and
Block3.Results will be stored in new
III. PROPOSED SYSTEM Key_Block13.
6. Apply XOR operation between Block2 and
In this paper we propose an improved block Block13.results will be stored in new
cipher symmetric encryption algorithm that has the Key_Block213.
same structure of encryption and decryption. So far, 7. Apply XOR operation between
conventional cryptography algorithms have Key_Block213 and Key_Block4.Results
difference structure of encryption and decryption. We will be stored in new Key_Block4213.
device our algorithm by inserting a symmetric layer 8. Repeat the steps 5,6,7 till (random
using random number, encryption number and XOR number/4).
operation, in which the whole proposed algorithm 9. Exit.
rounds uses encryption procedure and the same for
the decryption procedure. The symmetry layer is put
between encryption part and the decryption one. The
proposed algorithm has the better speed compared
with the comparing encryption algorithm. The main
feature of the encryption/decryption program
implementation is the generation of the encrypted
key. The purpose of the cryptography is used not
only to provide confidentiality, but also to provide
solutions for other problems such as data integrity,
authentication, non-repudiation.In this a random
number for generating the initial key, where this key
will be used for encrypting the given source file using
proposed encryption algorithm with the help of
encryption number. The proposed key blocks
contains all the possible words comprising of
number(n) of characters each generated from all
characters whose ASCII code is from 0 to 255 in a
random order. The pattern of the key blocks will
depend on the text key entered by the user. Here we
are using 512 bit key size to encrypt a text message.
To decrypt any file one has to know exactly what the
key blocks is and to find the random blocks
theoretically one has to apply 2^256 trial run which is
intractable. As proposed earlier we are using a
symmetric key approach in our system. Fig 1.1 Block diagram for the key generation

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ALGORITHM FOR THE ENCRYPTION The Fig1.4 shows that the input texts are being
PROCESS scanned for the encryption to take place. The
condition of the switches is scanned for inputs and
1. Initially select the plane text of 16 bytes following encryption process done. The simulation
2. Insert the key of size 16 bytes(depend on the results in Fig 1.5 shows that the transmission of the
plane text value) input text to the receiver side.
3. Apply XOR operation between the
key(Key_Block4213) and plane text block
(Text_Block). Results will be stored in
Cipher_Block1.
4. Apply right circular shift with 3 values. will be
stored in new Cipher_Block2.
5. Apply XOR operation between Cipher_Block2
and Key_Block2.Result will be stored in new
Cipher_Block4.
6. Cipher_Block4 is the input of the next round as a
plane text block.
7. Repeat step 1 to 7 till (Encryption number /4).
8. Exit.

Fig 1.3 Simulation for scanning keys

Fig 1.2 Block diagram for the encryption process

IV. RESULTS AND SIMULATION

The following results were obtained from the

PROTEUS MODELING describing the encryption
and decryption algorithm of our proposed system.
The simulation results Fig1.2 describes about the Fig 1.4 Simulation for input text
initial condition where the input texts are given encryption
manually.

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Fig 1.5 Simulation result showing the transmission
of the input text
V. CONCLUSION
Cryptography is the best method for security of data.
The proposed RSA shows a better result when
compared with the previous works. It will take less
time and it is impossible to break the encryption
algorithm without knowing the exact key value. This
algorithm can be applied for data encryption and
decryption in any type of public applications for
sending confidential data.
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Dr.K.Sheela Shobana Rani, Associate professor,Sri
Ramakrishna Institute of Technology,Coimbatore, has 10.5
years experience in teaching, has published papers in 16
journals and in 20 conferences
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M. Divya Bharathi, pursuing B.E in ELECTRONICS AND

COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING, Sri Ramakrishna
Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, have attended a
workshop on “ARDUINO MICROCONTROLLER” at Sri
Ramakrishna Institute of Technology and attended a
conference on “ ADVANCED TRENDS IN
COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING” at Sri Ramakrishna
R. Abiya Neethu, pursuing B.E in ELECTRONICS AND Institute of Technology. A member of ISTE (Indian Society
COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING, Sri Ramakrishna for Technical Education).
Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, have attended a
workshop on “ARDUINO MICROCONTROLLER” at Sri
Ramakrishna Institute of Technology and attended a
conference on “ ADVANCED TRENDS IN
COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING” at Sri
Ramakrishna Institute of Technology. A member of ISTE
(Indian Society for Technical Education).

R. Aiswarya, pursuing B.E in ELECTRONICS AND

COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING, Sri Ramakrishna
Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, have attended a
workshop on “ARDUINO MICROCONTROLLER” at Sri
Ramakrishna Institute of Technology and attended a
conference on “ ADVANCED TRENDS IN
COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING” at Sri Ramakrishna
Institute of Technology. A member of ISTE (Indian Society
for Technical Education).

S.Archana, pursuing B.E in ELECTRONICS AND

COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING, Sri Ramakrishna
Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, have attended a
workshop on “ARDUINO MICROCONTROLLER” at Sri
Ramakrishna Institute of Technology and attended a
conference on “ ADVANCED TRENDS IN
COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING” at Sri Ramakrishna
Institute of Technology. A member of ISTE (Indian Society
for Technical Education).

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