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Differential security evaluation of simeck with dynamic key-guebing techniques

  • Kexin Qiao
  • , Lei Hu*
  • , Siwei Sun
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • CAS - Institute of Information Engineering
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Abstract

The Simeck family of lightweight block ciphers was proposed in CHES 2015 which combines the good design components from NSA designed ciphers SIMON and SPECK. Dynamic key-guebing techniques were proposed by Wang et al. to greatly reduce the key space guebed in differential cryptanalysis and work well on SIMON. In this paper, we implement the dynamic key-guebing techniques in a program to automatically give out the data in dynamic key-guebing procedure and thus simplify the security evaluation of SIMON and Simeck like block ciphers regarding differential attacks. We use the differentials from Kölbl et al.'s work and also a differential with lower Hamming weight we find using Mixed Integer Linear Programming method to attack Simeck. We improve the previous best results on all versions of Simeck by 2 rounds.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICISSP 2016 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy
EditorsSteven Furnell, Olivier Camp, Paolo Mori
PublisherSciTePress
Pages74-84
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9789897581670
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, ICISSP 2016 - Rome, Italy
Duration: 19 Feb 201621 Feb 2016

Publication series

NameICISSP 2016 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy

Conference

Conference2nd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, ICISSP 2016
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityRome
Period19/02/1621/02/16

Keywords

  • Differential Cryptanalysis
  • Dynamic Key-guebing
  • Simeck

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