ABC Optimization Based Construction of Strong Substitution-Boxes

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 linear and differential assaults. The security of such ciphers relies on the strength of S-boxes deployed during substitution stage. It is challenging to construct cryptographically strong S-boxes that satisfy several properties such as high nonlinearity, good avalanche effect, bit-independent criteria, low differential uniformity and linear probability, etc. In this paper, we proposed to construct an S-box based on artificial bee colony optimization and chaotic map. The algorithm is designed to optimize an initial S-box to satisfy many properties. The simulation outcomes and comparison with recent proposals show that the proposed ABC optimization based algorithm performs reasonably well and construct S-box that exhibits higher security strength.