Title :
Cryptanalysis of Simple Substitution Ciphers Using Particle Swarm Optimization
Author :
Uddin, Mohammad Faisal ; Youssef, Amr M.
Author_Institution :
Concordia Univ., Montreal
Abstract :
We investigate the use of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) in automated cryptanalysis of classical simple substitution ciphers. Based on our experimental results, PSO-based attacks proved to be very effective on various sets of encoding keys.
Keywords :
cryptography; particle swarm optimisation; PSO-based attacks; cryptanalysis; encoding keys; particle swarm optimization; substitution ciphers; Birds; Cryptography; Educational institutions; Encoding; Genetic algorithms; Marine animals; Modeling; Particle swarm optimization; Simulated annealing; Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Evolutionary Computation, 2006. CEC 2006. IEEE Congress on
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9487-9
DOI :
10.1109/CEC.2006.1688376
