Using Raga as a Cryptographic Tool

Music can be used as a special language of codes and ciphers. Music cipher is one possible way to communicate among many others. Musical notes with letters are equated in such a way as to make a work or phrase. Broadcast messages encrypted by the sender in the musical notes and decrypted by the receiver can help to protect the message from the intruder. The paper proposes raga as a cryptographic tool. Apart from the novelty, we discover some potential benefits.