Particle swarm optimization based highly nonlinear substitution-boxes generation for security applications

M Ahmad, IA Khaja, A Baz, H Alhakami… - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Symmetric encryption has been considered as one of the essential means of ensuring
security of end to end communication. The robustness and strength of modern day block …

A novel efficient substitution-box design based on firefly algorithm and discrete chaotic map

HA Ahmed, MF Zolkipli, M Ahmad - Neural Computing and Applications, 2019 - Springer
Substitution boxes are essential nonlinear components responsible to impart strong
confusion and security in most of modern symmetric ciphers. Constructing efficient S-boxes …

A novel ant colony optimization based scheme for substitution box design

M Ahmad, D Bhatia, Y Hassan - Procedia Computer Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Efficient substitution boxes have crucial importance in the design of cryptographically strong
modern block encryption algorithms. They are the only nonlinear blocks that decide the …

A New 1D Chaotic Map and -Hill Climbing for Generating Substitution-Boxes

AA Alzaidi, M Ahmad, MN Doja, E Al Solami… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One-dimensional (1-D) chaotic maps have been considered as prominent pseudo-random
source for the design of different cryptographic primitives. They have the advantages of …

ABC optimization based construction of strong substitution-boxes

M Ahmad, MN Doja, MMS Beg - Wireless Personal Communications, 2018 - Springer
Most of the block ciphers contain substitution-boxes as their cornerstone primitive to add
requisite nonlinearity. S-boxes are responsible to ensure strong confusion and resistance to …

Human behaviour based optimization supported with self-organizing maps for solving the S-box design problem

R Soto, B Crawford, FG Molina, R Olivares - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The cryptanalytic resistance of modern block and stream encryption systems mainly
depends on the substitution box (S-box). In this context, the problem is thus to create an S …

Bijective S-boxes method using improved chaotic map-based heuristic search and algebraic group structures

M Ahmad, E Al-Solami, AM Alghamdi… - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a hybrid method for the construction of cryptographically strong bijective
substitution-boxes by utilizing the merits of chaotic map and algebraic groups. The hybrid …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient cryptographic substitution box design using travelling salesman problem and chaos

M Ahmad, N Mittal, P Garg, MM Khan - Perspectives in Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Symmetric encryption has been a standout amongst the most reliable option by which
security is accomplished. In modern block symmetric cyphers, the substitution-boxes have …

Grey wolf optimizer and discrete chaotic map for substitution boxes design and optimization

AI Lawah, AA Ibrahim, SQ Salih, HS Alhadawi… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A metaheuristic approach based on the nature-inspired and well-known Grey Wolf
Optimization algorithm (GWO) was employed in this study to design an approach for …

A novel method of S-box design based on discrete chaotic maps and cuckoo search algorithm

HS Alhadawi, MA Majid, D Lambić… - Multimedia Tools and …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Substitution-boxes (S-boxes) are unique nonlinear elements, which are used to
achieve the property of confusion in modern symmetric ciphers and offer resistance to …