Dynamic Key Camouflage Encryption: A Self-Contained Encryption Structure for Portable Secure Data Storage

Author(s)	Mr. Amit Rai
Country	India
Abstract	Traditional cryptographic systems rely on external key manage- ment mechanisms where encryption keys are stored, exchanged, or managed separately from encrypted data. This creates operational complexity and increases the risk of key leakage through memory dumps, configuration files, or network interception. This paper proposes a dynamic key camouflage encryption model where encryption keys are generated at runtime and embedded within the encrypted data structure in an obfuscated form. The encrypted structure contains ciphertext and a hidden representation of the en- cryption key that is bound to the ciphertext using cryptographic hash- ing and structural scrambling. The final encrypted object becomes a portable self-contained con- tainer that can be stored in memory, disk, or transmitted across net- works without requiring separate key storage. The internal layout of the encrypted object is further protected using a family of reversible jumbling functions that obscure the structural boundaries between ci- phertext and key material
Keywords	Dynamic Key Encryption, Key Camouflage, Self-Contained Encryption, Secure Data Storage, Cryptographic Obfuscation, Portable Encrypted Containers, Data Protection Architecture
Field	Computer > Data / Information
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On	2026-03-19
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i02.71936

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