JIGS: A Modular Parallel Encryption and Authentication Pipeline for Secure Messaging

JIGS integrates Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key exchanges with nonce-based AES-128 encryption, providing forward secrecy and key authentication. Its modular design enables adaptation across diverse implementation scenarios, and Python-based prototyping facilitates rapid performance optimization.

Experimental results indicate a processing speed improvement of up to 96.67% through parallelization, particularly for handling larger data sizes. A security analysis further validates the architecture’s resilience against common attack vectors while also acknowledging the inherent trade-offs between computational efficiency and cryptographic strength.

The implementation code is available at the GitHub repository: https://github.com/Girish-K01/jigs-crypto-code-repo

Link to paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2631-8695/addd67

Recommended citation: Kulathumani, G., Madangarli, S. V., Ullas, J., Agarwal, I., et al. (2025). "JIGS: a modular parallel encryption and authentication pipeline for secure messaging." Engineering Research Express, 7(2), 025276. doi:10.1088/2631-8695/addd67
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