Exploring Polymorphic Algorithms and Their Use in Cryptography.

With the ever increasing demand of higher security standards for data encryption, algorithms need to be scalable and efficient while maintaining a high key space to prevent brute force attacks. Although the current encryption standards are decent for the current era of computing power, many will be rendered useless as quantum computing becomes more relevant. Even now, the current encryption standard of AES-256 with CBC is vulnerable to attacks such as the key recovery attack. This paper covers the basic foundations of polymorphic encryptions, the mathematical principles behind them, and a novel post-quantum polymorphic encryption algorithm.