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Optimisation Heuristics for Cryptology

The aim of the research presented in this thesis is to investigate the use of various optimisation heuristics in the fields of automated cryptanalysis and automated cryptographic function generation. These techniques were found to provide a successful method of automated cryptanalysis of a variety of the classical ciphers. Also, they were found to enhance existing fast correlation attacks on certain stream ciphers. A previously proposed attack of the knapsack cipher is shown to be flawed due to the absence of a suitable solution evaluation mechanism. Finally, a new approach for finding highly nonlinear Boolean functions is introduced.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/264770
Date January 1998
CreatorsClark, Andrew J.
PublisherQueensland University of Technology
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
Detected LanguageEnglish
RightsCopyright Andrew John Clark

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