Abstract-Substitution boxes are important components in many modern day block and stream ciphers. Their study has attracted a great deal of attention over many years. The development of a variety of cryptosystem attacks over the years has lead to the development of criteria for resilience to such attacks. Some general criteria such as high non-linearity and low autocorrelation have been proposed as useful criteria (providing some protection against attacks such as linear cryptanalysis and differential cryptanalysis). There has been little application of evolutionary search to the development of S-boxes. In this paper we show how a cost function that has found excellent single output Boolean functions can be generalised to provide improved results for small S-boxes.
Abstract-Substitution boxes are important components in many modern day block and stream ciphers. Their study has attracted a great deal of attention over many years. The development of a variety of cryptosystem attacks over the years has lead to the development of criteria for resilience to such attacks. Some general criteria such as high non-linearity and low autocorrelation have been proposed as useful criteria (providing some protection against attacks such as linear cryptanalysis and differential cryptanalysis). There has been little application of evolutionary search to the development of S-boxes. In this paper we show how a cost function that has found excellent single output Boolean functions can be generalised to provide improved results for small S-boxes.
Abstract. Many desirable properties have been identified for Boolean functions with cryptographic applications. Obtaining optimal tradeoffs among such properties is hard. In this paper we show how simulated annealing, a search technique inspired by the cooling processes of molten metals, can be used to derive functions with profiles of cryptographicallyrelevant properties as yet unachieved by any other technique.
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