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.
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CCECE.2006.277769
