Improved RC6 algorithm using two types of chaos maps

Abstract

RC6 (Rivest cipher 6) is keyblock chipher which consider symmetric imitative from RC5. It was intended to encounter the needs competition of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). The aim of this work is to add new security layer to RC6 (Rivest Cipher 6) algorithm, because there is some insufficiency in the Key Scheduling Algorithm (KSA) of RC6. This paper presents improved RC6 (IRC6) key generation based on two types of chaotic maps (Chebyshev,2d logistic) to generate N key to N users. The results prove that the average secrecy of IRC6 is better than of traditional RC6, in which: for 32 bits’ key length, and 256 bits’ plaintext size, the average secrecy of IRC6 is (0.536-3.907) while for RC6 is (0.254 constant).