AoNT Trap: Borromean-Entangled Mutable Chameleon Trapdoor Hash All-or-Nothing Stream Cipher

Abstract

This work introduces the Borromean-Entangled Chameleon Trapdoor Hash All-or-Nothing (AoNT) Stream Cipher (BEC-Trap), a novel construction that merges Borromean interdependence, trapdoor-enabled mutability, and streaming encryption into a unified framework. The (BEC-Trap) cipher links key (K), initialization vector (V ), and internal state (St) in a Borromean structure, ensuring that breaking, guessing, or removing any one component collapses the entire keystream, providing a computational (AoNT) interdependence under standard cryptographic assumptions. A chameleon trapdoor hash is integrated to permit controlled collisions, enabling seamless rekeying, (V ) refresh, and state rotation without resynchronizing endpoints. This design provides confidentiality, forward secrecy, and adaptive key management with low computational overhead, making it suitable for high-throughput secure messaging, IoT communications, and privacy-preserving blockchain channels. Security analysis of the (BEC-Trap) shows that the construction is resistant to key-recovery attacks, state compromise, and desynchronization attempts, delivering a robust cryptographic primitive for next-generation secure communications.