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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-discrete-mathematical-sciences-and-cryptography</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences and Cryptography</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-0065</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0972-0529</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JDMSC-3074</article-id>
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        <article-title>On the interplay between combinatorial designs and modern cryptography</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Seethaladevi</surname>
            <given-names>S.</given-names>
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          <aff>Department of Mathematics, Meenakshi College of Arts and Science, Meenakshi Academy of Higher Education &amp; Research (Deemed to be University), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600078, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Bhan</surname>
            <given-names>Suraj</given-names>
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          <aff>School of Engineering &amp; Technology, Noida International University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, 203201, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Korwar</surname>
            <given-names>Dipti Ganesh</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Engineering Science and Humanities, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, Maharashtra, 411037, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Ahire</surname>
            <given-names>Sandhya Onkar</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Electronics Engineering (VLSI Design &amp; Technology), AISSMS College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, 411001, India</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Gupta</surname>
            <given-names>Ishita</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Rungta College of Engineering and Technology, Rungta International Skills University, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, 490024, India</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Lakshmi</surname>
            <given-names>V. Anantha</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of CSE (Artificial Intelligence &amp; Machine Learning), Pragati Engineering College, Surampalem, Kakinada District, Andhra Pradesh, 533437, India</aff>
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      <volume>29</volume>
      <issue>10-C</issue>
      <fpage>4571</fpage>
      <lpage>4582</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>31</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2026</year>
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        <p>Combinatorial designs are a mathematical basis to build secure and effective cryptographic systems. They allow randomness to be well structured, uniformly distributed, and highly diffused, which is critical to the security primitives in the modern world. In this paper, the interaction between orthogonal arrays, Latin squares and quasigroup constructions in fortifying substitution permutation networks and S-box design is discussed. It provides a single analytical framework between combinatorial properties and algebraic hardness assumptions, which allow strong resistance to linear, differential and algebraic attacks. Also, hybridization with the current cryptography methods, and, in particular, post-quantum methods, is considered to improve scalability and resilience. The theoretical and experimental analyses show that it has better security measures, structural efficiency, and fault tolerances than the traditional constructions. The findings underscore the importance of the combinatorial design theory as an effective instrument to the next-generation cryptographic architecture. This book offers information on safe, scalable, and ground-based system design.</p>
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