ABC Optimization Based Construction of Strong Substitution-Boxes

Ahmad, Musheer; Doja, M. N.; Beg, M. M. Sufyan

doi:10.1007/s11277-018-5787-1

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“…These chaos topographies make chaotic systems as a choice for the development of modern ciphers and many researchers have used chaos in the design of S-boxes. Authors [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] suggested S-boxes based on chaotic map and analyzed these along with the other existing S-box design methods. Analyses disclosed that the proposed S-boxes are strong against different attacks and hence suggest their usage in modern block ciphers.…”

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An Innovative Design of Substitution-Boxes Using Cubic Polynomial Mapping

Zahid

Arshad

2019

Symmetry

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In this paper, we propose to present a novel technique for designing cryptographically strong substitution-boxes using cubic polynomial mapping. The proposed cubic polynomial mapping is proficient to map the input sequence to a strong 8 × 8 S-box meeting the requirements of a bijective function. The use of cubic polynomial maintains the simplicity of S-box construction method and found consistent when compared with other existing S-box techniques used to construct S-boxes. An example proposed S-box is obtained which is analytically evaluated using standard performance criteria including nonlinearity, bijection, bit independence, strict avalanche effect, linear approximation probability, and differential uniformity. The performance results are equated with some recently scrutinized S-boxes to ascertain its cryptographic forte. The critical analyses endorse that the proposed S-box construction technique is considerably innovative and effective to generate cryptographic strong substitution-boxes.

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An Innovative Design of Substitution-Boxes Using Cubic Polynomial Mapping

Zahid

Arshad

2019

Symmetry

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“…The results indicate that the proposed S-Box is more effective when compared to its counterparts. The authors in [ 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 ] proposed strong S-Boxes based on the combination of chaotic maps and other different algorithms. The evaluation of the cryptographic performance of these S-Boxes against NL, SAC, BIC, etc.…”

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A Novel Construction of Efficient Substitution-Boxes Using Cubic Fractional Transformation

Zahid

Arshad

Ahmad

2019

Entropy

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A symmetric block cipher employing a substitution–permutation duo is an effective technique for the provision of information security. For substitution, modern block ciphers use one or more substitution boxes (S-Boxes). Certain criteria and design principles are fulfilled and followed for the construction of a good S-Box. In this paper, an innovative technique to construct substitution-boxes using our cubic fractional transformation (CFT) is presented. The cryptographic strength of the proposed S-box is critically evaluated against the state of the art performance criteria of strong S-boxes, including bijection, nonlinearity, bit independence criterion, strict avalanche effect, and linear and differential approximation probabilities. The performance results of the proposed S-Box are compared with recently investigated S-Boxes to prove its cryptographic strength. The simulation and comparison analyses validate that the proposed S-Box construction method has adequate efficacy to generate efficient candidate S-Boxes for usage in block ciphers.

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“…The most popular and standard cryptographic properties of S-boxes are as follows: high nonlinearity, low differential uniformity, the strict avalanche criterion equals to 0.5, the satisfaction of bits independence criterion for high bits independence criterion (BIC) nonlinearity and BIC–strict avalanche criterion (SAC) close to 0.5, and low linear approximation probability. A majority of the existing S-boxes schemes have scrutinized their constructed S-boxes mainly against these security properties [ 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 ]. The following subsections analyzed the proposed S-boxes under the mentioned properties.…”

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Evolving Dynamic S-Boxes Using Fractional-Order Hopfield Neural Network Based Scheme

Ahmad

Alsolami

2020

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Static substitution-boxes in fixed structured block ciphers may make the system vulnerable to cryptanalysis. However, key-dependent dynamic substitution-boxes (S-boxes) assume to improve the security and robustness of the whole cryptosystem. This paper proposes to present the construction of key-dependent dynamic S-boxes having high nonlinearity. The proposed scheme involves the evolution of initially generated S-box for improved nonlinearity based on the fractional-order time-delayed Hopfield neural network. The cryptographic performance of the evolved S-box is assessed by using standard security parameters, including nonlinearity, strict avalanche criterion, bits independence criterion, differential uniformity, linear approximation probability, etc. The proposed scheme is able to evolve an S-box having mean nonlinearity of 111.25, strict avalanche criteria value of 0.5007, and differential uniformity of 10. The performance assessments demonstrate that the proposed scheme and S-box have excellent features, and are thus capable of offering high nonlinearity in the cryptosystem. The comparison analysis further confirms the improved security features of anticipated scheme and S-box, as compared to many existing chaos-based and other S-boxes.

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ABC Optimization Based Construction of Strong Substitution-Boxes

Cited by 55 publications

References 40 publications

An Innovative Design of Substitution-Boxes Using Cubic Polynomial Mapping

An Innovative Design of Substitution-Boxes Using Cubic Polynomial Mapping

A Novel Construction of Efficient Substitution-Boxes Using Cubic Fractional Transformation

Evolving Dynamic S-Boxes Using Fractional-Order Hopfield Neural Network Based Scheme

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