DNA-like linguistic secret sharing for strategic information systems

The development of DNA cryptography has contributed to the ability of solving many computationally difficult problems by offering the capability of executing calculations in parallel. This capability is used particularly in solving NP-complete problems or implementing cryptography and steganography solutions. Biological computation models based on bonds between nitrogen bases in nucleic acid chains that make up DNA structures can also be used to develop new solutions for smart information management. This study discusses new secret splitting techniques based on mathematical linguistic methods and designed for intelligently managing secret data within hierarchical structures. These techniques make use of information coding models found in the coding of DNA sequences.

► We introduced a general protocol for creating secret components using linguistic approach.
► This new protocol allows the traditional secret sharing approaches to be extended into algorithms executed in a hierarchical way.
► Such methods can be used to split and manage information in various information systems or structures (i.e. linear or hierarchical).
► Proposed way of encoding splitted information is a far going extension of encoding information originating from DNA-cryptography.