Skip to main content

Using Ants to Attack a Classical Cipher

  • Conference paper
  • First Online:
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation — GECCO 2003 (GECCO 2003)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 2723))

Included in the following conference series:

  • 1536 Accesses

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Subscribe and save

Springer+ Basic
$34.99 /Month
  • Get 10 units per month
  • Download Article/Chapter or eBook
  • 1 Unit = 1 Article or 1 Chapter
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe now

Buy Now

Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Andrew Clark. Optimisation Heuristics for Cryptology. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1998.

    Google Scholar 

  2. Marco Dorigo, Vittorio Maniezzo, and Alberto Colorni. The Ant System: Optimization by a colony of cooperating agents. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part B: Cybernetics, 26(1):29–41, 1996.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. J. P. Giddy and R. Safavi-Naini. Automated cryptanalysis of transposition ciphers. The Computer Journal, 37(5):429–436, 1994.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Robert A. J. Matthews. The use of genetic algorithms in cryptanalysis. Cryptologia, 17(2):187–201, April 1993.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2003 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this paper

Cite this paper

Russell, M., Clark, J.A., Stepney, S. (2003). Using Ants to Attack a Classical Cipher. In: Cantú-Paz, E., et al. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation — GECCO 2003. GECCO 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2723. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45105-6_16

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45105-6_16

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-40602-0

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-540-45105-1

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics