An analytical review of current S-box design methodologies, performance evaluation criteria, and major challenges

A Waheed, F Subhan, MM Suud, M Alam… - Multimedia Tools and …, 2023 - Springer
The expansion of worldwide networking has created new possibilities for management,
development, and presentation in the form of digital data. The uncomplicated accessibility to …

A novel construction of efficient substitution-boxes using cubic fractional transformation

AH Zahid, MJ Arshad, M Ahmad - Entropy, 2019 - mdpi.com
A symmetric block cipher employing a substitution–permutation duo is an effective technique
for the provision of information security. For substitution, modern block ciphers use one or …

An innovative design of substitution-boxes using cubic polynomial mapping

AH Zahid, MJ Arshad - Symmetry, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we propose to present a novel technique for designing cryptographically
strong substitution-boxes using cubic polynomial mapping. The proposed cubic polynomial …

A novel construction of dynamic S-box with high nonlinearity using heuristic evolution

AH Zahid, AM Iliyasu, M Ahmad, MMU Shaban… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For decades, the security and privacy of data are among the major challenges faced by
service providers dealing with public data. To cope with these challenges, most of the …

S-box construction based on linear fractional transformation and permutation function

LC Nizam Chew, ES Ismail - Symmetry, 2020 - mdpi.com
Substitution boxes (S-box) with strong and secure cryptographic properties are widely used
for providing the key property of nonlinearity in block ciphers. This is critical to be resistant to …

Visual data enciphering via dna encoding, s-box, and tent mapping

M Gabr, H Younis, M Ibrahim, S Alajmy… - 2022 IEEE 5th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ever-evolving nature of the Internet and wireless communications, as well as the
production of huge amounts of multimedia every day has created a dire need for their …

A novel cryptographic substitution box design using Gaussian distribution

MF Khan, A Ahmed, K Saleem - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a novel method is being proposed to construct a substitution box or Boolean
function for block ciphers using Gaussian distribution and linear fractional transform. The …

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 …

Dynamic S-box design using a novel square polynomial transformation and permutation

AH Zahid, H Rashid, MMU Shaban, S Ahmad… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
New era ciphers employ substitution boxes (S-boxes) which assist in the provision of
security for the plaintext in the encryption phase and transforming the ciphertext on the …

A study of text-theoretical approach to S-box construction with image encryption applications

A Mahboob, M Nadeem, MW Rasheed - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Data protection is regarded as one of the biggest issues facing companies that have been
using public data for a long time. Numerous encryption techniques have been used to …