(Meta)Heuristic Algorithms as tools in Cryptography?

Antonio Bolufé-Röhler @Antonio_Bolufe-Roehler

07 July 2016 1 3K Report

I´m looking for examples of heuristic and metaheuristic algorithms applied to cryptographic problems.

Dania Tamayo-Vera

I think these papers may help:

Conference Paper An effective evolutionary strategy for bijective S-boxes

Conference Paper Improved hill-climbing methods in the design of bijective S-boxes

Article The Design of S-Boxes by Simulated Annealing

Conference Paper Evolutionary Heuristics for Finding Cryptographically Strong S-Boxes

Article Use of a genetic algorithm in the cryptanalysis of simple su...

Article The evolutionary design of trace form bent functions in cryptography

Conference Paper A New Heuristic Based on the Cuckoo Search for Cryptanalysis...

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