Quantum Cryptanalysis Using Digital Ant in Pervasive Environment

Abstract

Nowadays security is providing essential provision to prevent unauthorized or illegal access. It has become an essential part of every framework in electronic age. In the present scenario as the world data in increasing exponentially with time interval, there is an increased threat of malicious data. Hence, security becomes the vital component to make this growing electronic usage leads to a sustainable development in society. Swarm intelligence is an upcoming field; through its stochastic behavior it has the capabilities to solve a greater range of optimization problem. Using the property of Meta heuristic techniques of finding the most optimized solution authors attempted to use them for security purposes. Paper discusses about an agent based meta heuristic approach to infrastructure cyber defense mechanism where a team of human and software ants mitigate security threat posed in a pervasive environment. The Digital AntsTM system architecture will wander through entire network in identifying the invaders i.e. viruses, trojan horses etc. Also, the quantum theory is used to generate the polynomial data analogous to pheromone in Ant Colony Optimization.