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access icon free Security evaluation on Simeck against zero-correlation linear cryptanalysis

  • Author(s): Kai Zhang 1, 2 ; Jie Guan 1 ; Bin Hu 1 ; Dongdai Lin 2
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  • Source: Volume 12, Issue 1, January 2018, p. 87 – 93
    DOI:  10.1049/iet-ifs.2016.0503 , Print ISSN 1751-8709, Online ISSN 1751-8717
© The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Received 30/10/2016, Accepted 08/09/2017, Revised 23/08/2017, Published 12/09/2017

Since proposed by the National Security Agency in June 2013, two lightweight block ciphers-SIMON and SPECK have attracted the attention of cryptographers from all over the world. At CHES 2015, Simeck, a new block cipher inspired from both SIMON and SPECK is proposed, which is more compact and efficient. However, the security evaluation on Simeck against zero-correlation linear cryptanalysis seems missing from the specification. The main focus of this study is to fill this gap and evaluate the security level of Simeck against zero-correlation linear cryptanalysis. According to the authors' study, 11-, 13- and 15-round zero-correlation linear distinguishers on Simeck32/48/64 are proposed, respectively, then zero-correlation linear cryptanalysis on 21-, 24-, 28-round Simeck32/48/64 are first proposed. As far as they know, for Simeck32, their result is the best result up to date.

Inspec keywords: cryptography

Other keywords: zero-correlation linear cryptanalysis; Simeck328-round Simeck32/48/64; 28-round Simeck32/48/64; 24-Simeck32/48/64; 11-round ZC linear distinguishers; 13-ZC linear distinguishers; LC; 15-round ZC linear distinguishers; 21-round Simeck32/48/64; SPECK; SIMON; ZC; CHES 2015; security evaluation; lightweight block ciphers

Subjects: Cryptography theory; Cryptography

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