Secret Agents Leave Big Footprints: How to Plant a Cryptographic Trapdoor, and Why You Might Not Get Away with It

This paper investigates whether optimisation techniques can be used to evolve artifacts of cryptographic significance which are apparently secure, but which have hidden properties that may facilitate cryptanalysis. We show how this might be done and how such sneaky use of optimisation may be detected.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: GECCO
• Authors: John A. Clark, Jeremy L. Jacob, Susan Stepney
• Keywords: Cryptographic Significance, GECCO 2003, Optimisation Techniques