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Abstract

A variable-length key cryptosystem is provided, in which the amount of parameters for generating a key to be shared is small, security is high, and calculation cost is small.The length of a plain text inputted from a data input part 10 is detected by a data string length detection processing part 20. A variable-length key generation processing part 30 generates an encryption key with a required arbitrary length, using an initial character string and a conversion rule, based on the length of a plain text. A conversion character string generation processing part 32 generates a converted character string from an initial character string by applying a conversion rule of increasing the length of a character string. Conversion is conducted until the length of a plain text is reached. An encryption key is not used twice. Therefore, an unused conversion character string is searched for, and a stream code processing part 40 generates an encrypted text by using a generated encrypted string. A receiver system 200 generates a converted character string from an initial character string by the same conversion, based on the length of an encrypted text, thereby obtaining the same encryption key.

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