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µ2 : A Lightweight Block Cipher

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 603))

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This paper presents a 64-bit lightweight block cipher, µ2 with a key size of 80-bit. µ2 is designed based on well-established design paradigms, achieving comparable performance and security when compared against existing state-of-the-art lightweight block ciphers. µ2 is based on the Type-II generalized Feistel structure with a round function, F that is a 16-bit ultra-lightweight block cipher based on the substitution-permutation network. Security evaluation indicates that µ2 offers a large security margin against known attacks such as differential cryptanalysis, linear cryptanalysis, algebraic attack and others.

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This work has been partially supported by Universiti Sains Malaysia under Grant No. 304/PKOMP/6315190.

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Yeoh, WZ., Teh, J.S., Sazali, M.I.S.B.M. (2020). µ2 : A Lightweight Block Cipher. In: Alfred, R., Lim, Y., Haviluddin, H., On, C. (eds) Computational Science and Technology. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 603. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0058-9_27

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