A New Modified MARS Cryptosystem Based on Niho Exponent with an Enhanced S-Box Generation

Abstract

As an essential cryptological element, symmetric-key block ciphers have long been utilized to offer information security. Even though they were created to provide data confidentiality, their adaptability grants them to be utilized in the creation of various cryptological techniques, including message authentication protocols, hash functions, and stream cryptograms. MARS is a symmetric shared-key block cryptosystem that supports 128-bit blocks and keys with sizes ranging from 128 to 448 bits. The cryptographic cores of MARS come in a variety of rounds, each constructed to take benefit of the robust outcomes in order to enhance security and performance over earlier ciphers. The MARS cipher is given a new function in this work that uses the operations ROT, XOR, NOP, INV, hash 512, Quotient, and MOD for improving the technique of the cipher. The goal of our modification is attaining a superior confusion level whilst retaining the MARS cryptosystem’s differential and linearity aspects.