• DocumentCode
    3137456
  • Title

    An Artificial Life Technique for the Cryptanalysis of Simple Substitution Ciphers

  • Author

    Uddin, Mohammad Faisal ; Youssef, Amr M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Concordia Univ., Montreal, Que.
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    38838
  • Firstpage
    1582
  • Lastpage
    1585
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we investigate the use of ant colony optimization (ACO) for automated cryptanalysis of classical simple substitution ciphers. Based on our experiments, ACO-based attacks proved to be very effective on various sets of encoding keys
  • Keywords
    cryptography; optimisation; probability; ant colony optimization; artificial life technique; cryptanalysis; simple substitution ciphers; Ant colony optimization; Art; Cost function; Encoding; Frequency; Genetics; Information systems; Simulated annealing; Statistics; Systems engineering and theory; Ant Colony Optimization; Cryptanalysis; Simple Substitution Cipher;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006. CCECE '06. Canadian Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Ottawa, Ont.
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0038-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1-4244-0038-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CCECE.2006.277769
  • Filename
    4054717
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3137456