Location-Dependent Cryptosystem

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14032v1
• Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 01:24:08 GMT
• Title: Location-Dependent Cryptosystem
• Authors: Kunal Mukherjee,
• Abstract summary: Digital content distribution and proprietary research-driven industries face persistent risks from intellectual property theft and unauthorized redistribution.<n>Conventional encryption schemes such as AES, TDES, ECC, and ElGamal provide strong cryptographic guarantees.<n>We present a location-dependent cryptosystem in which the decryption key is not transmitted as human- or machine-readable data.
• Score: 0.3553493344868414
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Digital content distribution and proprietary research-driven industries face persistent risks from intellectual property theft and unauthorized redistribution. Conventional encryption schemes such as AES, TDES, ECC, and ElGamal provide strong cryptographic guarantees, but they remain fundamentally agnostic to where decryption takes place.In practice, this means that once a decryption key is leaked or intercepted, any adversary can misuse the key to decrypt the protected content from any location. We present a location-dependent cryptosystem in which the decryption key is not transmitted as human- or machine-readable data, but implicitly encoded in precise time-of-flight differences of ultra-wideband (UWB) data transmission packets. The system leverages precise timing hardware and a custom JMTK protocol to map a SHA-256 hashed AES key onto scheduled transmission timestamps. Only receivers located within a predefined spatial region can observe the packet timings that align with the intended "time slot" pattern, enabling them to reconstruct the key and decrypt the secret. Receivers outside the authorized region observe incorrect keys. We implement a complete prototype that encrypts and transmits audio data using our cryptosystem, and only when the receiver is within the authorized data, they are able to decrypt the data. Our evaluation demonstrates that the system (i) removes the need to share decryption passwords electronically or physically, (ii) ensures the decryption key cannot be recovered by the eavesdropper, and (iii) provides a non-trivial spatial tolerance for legitimate users.

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