Generating A New S-Box Inspired by

Many scholars have attempted to use new methods inspired by DNA bio‐techniques in the domains of cryptography and steganography. In this article, a new S‐Box was designed inspired by biology DNA techniques to be used for SPN symmetric block ciphers. The new S‐Box is used in order to make use of biological process as inspiration in creating the S‐Box as simple and secure approach. This article uses the new S‐Box within the AES (Advanced Encryption Standard). The National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) tests have been used to test the cipher which uses this new S‐Box. The results of the tests demonstrate that it effectively passed all the randomness tests of NIST. In addition, the S‐Box testing criteria were conducted to test the security of the new S‐Box; the results of these tests indicate that the new S‐Box has good security.

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