Plausibly Deniable Chemical Encryption: Hiding a Molecule in a Haystack

We propose an outline of plausibly deniable chemical encryption algorithm, a technique aimed at increasing the cost of a small organic molecule identification in a sample by means of chemical analysis through mixing it with a rationally designed randomized mixture of analytical interferents, in a remote analogy to other domains of cryptography. The algorithm is then applied in a proof-of-concept demonstration example.