Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 9

Path Resolvability in Graphs-A New Encryption Technique

*Department of Mathematics, Anna University, MIT Campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

**Department of Mathematics, Anna University, MIT Campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract

The shortest distance between two vertices u and v in a connected graph G is the length of a shortest u−v path in G denoted byd(u, v). A subset W of a vertex set Vof G is a resolving set if each pair of distinct vertices u, v∈V(G) there is a vertex w∈V such that d u, w ≠d(v, w). A resolving set W is said to be a path resolving set if it is induces a path. The minimum cardinality of the resolving set W is said to be path resolving number. In resolvability the distinct vertex of a graph Ghas distinct code with respect to W meanwhile the code of a vertex is depend upon the resolving set W. The structural symmetry of a graph implies the same path number with different resolving sets. It can be used in the developing of the symmetric key cryptosystems. In this paper we encrypt secret messages over the web graph Pn×Cm using path resolving set.

Keywords

Metric dimension, Resolving set, Path resolving number, Web graph, Encryption, Decryption