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An encryption scheme based on DNA

LU Ming-xin(1,2);CHEN Yuan(1,2);QIN Lei(3);XIAO Guo-zhen(1,2)
  

  1. (1) State Key Lab. of Integrated Service Networks, Xidian Univ., Xi’an 710071, China
    (2) State Key Lab. of Information Security, Inst. of Software of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
    (3) Cancer Research Inst., Queen’s Univ., Kingston, ON K7L3N6, Canada
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2006-12-20 Published:2006-12-20

Abstract: Using the technologies of DNA synthesis, DNA clone, PCR and DNA chip and the theory of computational complexity, an encryption scheme is formed. In the scheme, encryption is to confect a specially designed DNA mixture and decryption is the hybridization of DNA sequances on a DNA chip (microarray). Thousands of billions of DNA probes are hybridized and identified according to the Watson-Crick complementarity on a DNA chip simultaneously. The great potential of DNA in vast parallelism computation and extraordinary information density is shown in this scheme to some degree. The limitations of current DNA technology and computational technology are the double guarantee for this scheme.

Key words: DNA cryptography, encryption, DNA computing

CLC Number: 

  • TN918.1