Applications of Soft Computing in Cryptology

Soft computing offers a number of interesting options how to solve many real world problems where security and cryptology domains are not exceptions. There, machine learning and various optimization techniques can play a significant role in finding new, improved solutions. Sometimes those methods are used to solve the problem itself, while sometimes they just represent a helper tool in a larger task. A more in-depth understanding of such techniques is always beneficial. Moreover, the research topics belonging to the intersection of the soft computing and the cryptology are rather demanding since usually neither of those two communities devotes much attention to the other area. In this paper, we briefly discuss three well-known applications of soft computing to the cryptology area where we identify main challenges and offer some possible future research directions.