학술논문

AES as Error Correction: Cryptosystems for Reliable Communication
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Communications Letters IEEE Commun. Lett. Communications Letters, IEEE. 27(8):1964-1968 Aug, 2023
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Codes
Error correction codes
Encryption
Channel coding
Receivers
Standards
Maximum likelihood decoding
Communication system security
telecommunication network reliability
cryptography
error correction codes
channel coding
Language
ISSN
1089-7798
1558-2558
2373-7891
Abstract
In this letter, we show that the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cryptosystem can be utilized as an error-correcting code to obtain reliability over noisy communication and data systems. Specifically, we show that by composing a simple padding followed by encrypting with AES, we can achieve error-correcting performance similar to random codes. We conduct an empirical comparison between our AES-based error correction approach, Random Linear Codes, and CA-Polar codes to assess their performance in practical scenarios. Our results show that the AES-based approach achieves nearly identical performance to the other well-established error-correcting codes.