• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.10a
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• pp.229-231
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• 2021

In this paper, we describe a hardware design of the SIMECK block cipher algorithm that can be implemented in lightweight hardware with appropriate security strength. To achieve fast encryption and decryption operations, it was designed using two-step method that reduces the number of operation rounds. The designed SIMECK cryptographic core was implemented in Arty S7-50 FPGA device and its hardware operation was verified with a GUI using Python.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.181-188
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• 2023

Block cipher is not expected to be safe for quantum computer, as Grover's algorithm reduces the security strength by accelerating brute-force attacks on symmetric key ciphers. So it is necessary to check the post-quantum security strength by implementing quantum circuit for the target cipher. In this paper, we propose the optimal quantum circuit implementation result designed as a technique to minimize the use of quantum resources (qubits, quantum gates) for SIMECK lightweight cryptography, and explain the operation of each quantum circuit. The implemented SIMECK quantum circuit is used to check the estimation result of quantum resources and calculate the Grover attack cost. Finally, the post-quantum strength of SIMECK lightweight cryptography is evaluated. As a result of post-quantum security strength evaluation, all SIMECK family cipher failed to reach NIST security strength. Therefore, it is expected that the safety of SIMECK cipher is unclear when large-scale quantum computers appear. About this, it is judged that it would be appropriate to increase the block size, the number of rounds, and the key length to increase the security strength.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.423-431
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• 2021

SPECK and SIMON are lightweight block ciphers developed by NSA(National Security Agency), and SIMECK is a new lightweight block cipher that combines the advantages of SPECK and SIMON. In this paper, a large-capacity encryption using SPECK, SIMON, and SIMECK is implemented using a GPU with efficient parallel processing. CUDA library provided by NVIDIA was used, and performance was maximized by using CUDA assembly language PTX to eliminate unnecessary operations. When comparing the results of the simple CPU implementation and the implementation using the GPU, it was possible to perform large-scale encryption at a faster speed. In addition, when comparing the implementation using the C language and the implementation using the PTX when implementing the GPU, it was confirmed that the performance increased further when using the PTX.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.97-99
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• 2022

대규모 양자컴퓨터가 등장하면 기존 암호체계가 더 이상 안전하지 않을 것이라 예상한다. 양자 알고리즘인 Grover's brute-force 알고리즘은 대칭키 암호에 대한 attack을 가속화 시켜 보안강도를 감소시킨다. 따라서 양자컴퓨터의 가용 자원이 암호공격에 필요한 자원에 도달했을 때, 공격 대상 암호가 깨지는 시점으로 보고 있다. 많은 선행 연구들은 암호를 양자회로로 구현하여 공격에 필요한 자원을 추정하고 암호에 대한 양자 강도를 확인하였다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 연구동기로 ARX 구조의 SIMECK 경량암호에 대한 양자회로를 처음으로 제안한다. 우리는 SIMECK 양자회로에 대한 최적의 양자회로 구현을 제시하고 각 함수의 동작을 설명한다. 마지막으로 SIMECK 양자회로에 대한 양자자원을 추정하고 SIMON 양자회로와 비교하여 평가한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.165-173
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• 2023

In this paper, we propose an optimal implementation of lightweight block ciphers, SIMECK and SIMON counter operation mode, on a 32-bit RISC-V processor. Utilizing the characteristics of the CTR operating mode, we propose round function optimization that precomputes some values, single plaintext optimization and two plaintext parallel optimization. Since there are no previous research results on SIMECK and SIMON on RISC-V, we compared the performance of implementations with and without precomputation techniques for single plaintext optimization and two plaintext parallel optimization implementations. As a result, the implementations to which the precomputation technique was applied showed a performance improvement of 1% compared to the implementations to which precomputation was not applied.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.72-74
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• 2022

사물인터넷에 성능이 향상됨에 따라 사물인터넷에 사용되는 저사양 프로세서들의 보안도 주목받고 있다. 이에 따라, 저사양 프로세서 상에서 안전하고 효율적으로 동작하는 경량 암호에 대한 개발과 최적연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 경량 블록 암호 중 하나인 SIMECK은 경량 블록 암호인 SPECK과 SIMON의 이점만을 결합한 암호 알고리즘이다. 본 논문에서는 저사양 프로세서 상에서의 경량 블록암호 SIMECK 최적 구현 동향에 대해 살펴본다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.177-183
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• 2016

A lot of Internet of Things devices has resource-restricted environment, so it is difficult to implement the existing block ciphers such as AES, PRESENT. By this reason, there are lightweight block ciphers, such as SIMON, SPECK, and Simeck, support various block/key sizes. These lightweight block ciphers can support the security on the IoT devices. In this paper, we propose efficient implementation methods and performance results for the Simeck family block cipher proposed in CHES 2015 on an 8-bit ATmega128-based STK600 board. The proposed methods can be adapted in the 8-bit microprocessor environment such as Arduino series which are one of famous devices for IoT application. The optimized on-the-fly (OTF) speed is on average 14.42 times faster and the optimized OTF memory is 1.53 times smaller than those obtained in the previous research. The speed-optimized encryption and the memory-optimized encryption are on average 12.98 times faster and 1.3 times smaller than those obtained in the previous studies, respectively.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.4502-4521
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• 2020

At EUROCRYPT 2015, Todo proposed a new technique named division property, and it is a powerful technique to find integral distinguishers. The original division property is also named word-based division property. Later, Todo and Morii once again proposed a new technique named the bit-based division property at FSE 2016 and find more rounds integral distinguisher for SIMON-32. There are two basic approaches currently being adopted in researches under the bit-based division property. One is conventional bit-based division property (CBDP), the other is bit-based division property using three-subset (BDPT). Particularly, BDPT is more powerful than CBDP. In this paper, we use Boolean Satisfiability Problem (SAT)-aided cryptanalysis to search integral distinguishers. We conduct experiments on SIMON-32/-48/-64/-96, SIMON (102)-32/-48/-64, SIMECK-32/-48/-64, LBlock, GIFT and Khudra to prove the efficiency of our method. For SIMON (102)-32/-48/-64, we can determine some bits are odd, while these bits can only be determined as constant in the previous result. For GIFT, more balanced (zero-sum) bits can be found. For LBlock, we can find some other new integral distinguishers. For Khudra, we obtain two 9-round integral distinguishers. For other ciphers, we can find the same integral distinguishers as before.