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Performance of BCH codes with DES encryption in a digital mobile channel

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Information Theory and Applications (ITA 1993)

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In a digital mobile communication channel, the use of an encryption algorithm is essential to prevent unwanted eavesdropping of private conversations and to protect sensitive data transfers against tampering. This paper presents a performance analysis of different modes of operation of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) encryption in a digital mobile radio channel environment. The objective is to determine the degradation effects of data enciphering on the channel reliability and to analyze the error correction capability of Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) codes for the enciphered data when channel errors occur. The digital mobile communication channel is simulated using Fritchman's channel model, which can represent a large variety of error burst channels. Computer simulations are used to evaluate the bit error performance of BCH codes in the error burst channels, when the information data is first encrypted with DES.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Ottawa, 161 Louis-Pasteur, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Guy Ferland & Jean-Yves Chouinard

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Ferland, G., Chouinard, JY. (1994). Performance of BCH codes with DES encryption in a digital mobile channel. In: Gulliver, T.A., Secord, N.P. (eds) Information Theory and Applications. ITA 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 793. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57936-2_37

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