Neural Cryptography for Secret Key Exchange

The goal of any cryptography system is the exchange of information among the intended user without any leakage of information to other who may have unauthorized access to it. A common secret key could be created over a public channel accessible to any opponent. Neural networks can be used to generate common secret key. In case of neural cryptography, both the communicating networks receive an identical input vector, generate an output bit and are trained based on the output bit. The two networks and their weights vectors exhibit a new phenomenon, where the networks synchronize to a state with identical time-dependent weights. The generated secret key over a public channel is used for encryption and decryption of the message or information send over the channel.