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Entropy of Selectively Encrypted Strings

Reine Lundin
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Stefan Lindskog
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Abstract

A feature that has become desirable for low-power mobile devices with limited computing and energy resources is the ability to select a security configuration in order to create a trade-off between security and other important parameters such as performance and energy consumption. Selective encryption can be used to create this trade-off by only encrypting chosen units of the information. In this paper, we continue the investigation of the confidentiality implications of selective encryption by applying entropy on a generic selective encryption scheme. By using the concept of run-length vector from run-length encoding theory, an expression is derived for entropy of selectively encrypted strings when the number of encrypted substrings, containing one symbol, and the order of the language change.
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hal-01573290 , version 1 (09-08-2017)

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Reine Lundin, Stefan Lindskog. Entropy of Selectively Encrypted Strings. 5th Workshop on Information Security Theory and Practices (WISTP), Jun 2011, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. pp.234-243, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-21040-2_16⟩. ⟨hal-01573290⟩
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