Claude Shannon (1916 - 2001) (Top
Left) An American electrical engineer and mathematician has been called the father of information
theory. - his seminal papers of 1948 and 1949 are now famous and they contain the proof of the One-Time
Pad cipher being theoretically unbreakable with conditions.
Major Joseph Mauborgne.(1881 - 1971) (below Right)
In the history of cryptography he co-invented the One-Time Pad cipher with Gilbert Vernam of
Bell Laboratories. He retired a General from the US military and is a member of the US Military
Intelligence Hall of Fame.
Scalable key Cryptography
An excursion into modular arithmetic enables a configurable encryption template that provides a copious supply of random keys. Initializing the procuring function at a suitable value has a knock-on effect on the number of keys – producing a ‘dilating key-string’ effect. This cryptography is underpinned simultaneously by both randomness and by the methodology of trapdoor cryptography, the latter emanates from the concept of mutual databases being used in conjunction with this new modular design of cipher. This scalar cipher is ‘theoretically unbreakable’ by definition and can be mathematically proven. Five versions of the same basic algorithm are available with as many management modes. The prototype cipher is written for ASCII in the western world, it is entirely extensible to the whole of Unicode however, in the long-term future of secure communications globally. This latter is done simply by recalculating the appropriate parameters to be applied for the language in question being encrypted using the same algorithm as is used here. The five versions enumerated are up and running as workable ciphers ready for commissioning in mainstream cryptography. Each cipher is secured by two and sometimes three random keys for good measure. All the boxes have been ticked twice to clinch the claims made.