Hiding messages using musical notes: A fuzzy logic approach

Abstract

"Music can be used as a communicable language". Musical symbols and musical notes have been used as codes and ciphers from early days. The art of encrypting messages using music is termed as Musical cryptography and it uses predefined set of notes and set of rules for composing musical pieces which in turn are musical cryptograms. Traditional algorithms applied to musical cryptography used simple substitution cipher which merely produced good musical sequences. To overcome this problem a fuzzy logic based algorithm for musical cryptography is proposed in this paper. The paper proposes a symmetric key substitution cipher which uses one of the n candidate notes to encrypt a particular character. The application of fuzzy logic in musical cryptography produces acceptable musical sequences which are hard to be suspected as cipher.