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

John A. Clark, Jeremy L. Jacob, and Susan Stepney

Department of Computer Science
University of York
Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
{jac,jeremy,susan}@cs.york.ac.uk

Abstract. 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.

LNCS 2724, p. 2022 ff.

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