AES as Error Correction: Cryptosystems for Reliable Communication

Alejandro Cohen; Rafael G.L. D'oliveira; Ken R. Duffy; Jongchan Woo; Muriel Medard

doi:10.1109/LCOMM.2023.3285404

AES as Error Correction: Cryptosystems for Reliable Communication

Alejandro Cohen, Rafael G.L. D'oliveira, Ken R. Duffy, Jongchan Woo, Muriel Medard

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In this letter, we show that the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cryptosystem can be utilized as an error-correcting code to obtain reliability over noisy communication and data systems. Specifically, we show that by composing a simple padding followed by encrypting with AES, we can achieve error-correcting performance similar to random codes. We conduct an empirical comparison between our AES-based error correction approach, Random Linear Codes, and CA-Polar codes to assess their performance in practical scenarios. Our results show that the AES-based approach achieves nearly identical performance to the other well-established error-correcting codes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1964-1968
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Communications Letters
Volume	27
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2023.3285404
State	Published - 1 Aug 2023
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

channel coding
Communication system security
cryptography
error correction codes
telecommunication network reliability

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Modeling and Simulation
Computer Science Applications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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