A method for generation of substitution box based on random selection

Abstract

Two basic requirements must be met to encrypt data. These requirements are confusion and diffusion properties. In particular, block cipher algorithms are based on a cryptographic component known as substitution-box to provide the need for confusion. Therefore, attack scenarios generally focus on this cryptographic component. There are alternative design approaches for substitution-box design. It is known that each design approach has several advantages and disadvantages. In this study, an alternative method is proposed to address the problems of the substitution-box design approach based on random selection. The success of the proposed method has been tested in three different scenarios. Analysis results for these three scenarios showed that generated substitution-box provides performance increase for nonlinearity criterion from s-box design criteria. Successful results achieved; It points out that improvement cryptographic components can be used in a variety of practical applications such as block ciphers, masks to prevent side-channel attacks, random number generators, and image encryption algorithms. (c) 2022 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-ncnd/4.0/).