Presentation 2011-12-14
Piccolo : An Ultra-Lightweight Blockcipher
Kyoji SHIBUTANI, Takanori ISOBE, Harunaga HIWATARI, Atsushi MITSUDA, Toru AKISHITA, Taizo SHIRAI,
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Abstract(in English) We introduce the 64-bit blockcipher Piccolo supporting 80 and 128-bit keys, which was proposed in CHES 2011. Adopting several novel design and implementation techniques, Piccolo achieves both high security and notably compact implementation in hardware. Piccolo offers a sufficient security level against known analyses including recent related-key differential attacks and meet-in-the-middle attacks. In our smallest implementation, the hardware requirements for the 80 and the 128-bit key modes are only 683 and 758 gate equivalents, respectively. Moreover, Piccolo requires only 60 additional gate equivalents to support the decryption function due to its involution structure. Furthermore, its efficiency on the energy consumption which is evaluated by energy per bit is also remarkable. Thus, Piccolo is one of the competitive ultra-lightweight blockciphers which are suitable for extremely constrained environments such as RFID tags and sensor nodes.
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Keyword(in English) blockcipher / generalized Feistel networks / differential related-key attacks / meet-in-the-middle attacks / ultra-lightweight
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Conference Date 2011/12/7(1days)
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Title (in English) Piccolo : An Ultra-Lightweight Blockcipher
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Keyword(1) blockcipher
Keyword(2) generalized Feistel networks
Keyword(3) differential related-key attacks
Keyword(4) meet-in-the-middle attacks
Keyword(5) ultra-lightweight
1st Author's Name Kyoji SHIBUTANI
1st Author's Affiliation Sony Corporation()
2nd Author's Name Takanori ISOBE
2nd Author's Affiliation Sony Corporation
3rd Author's Name Harunaga HIWATARI
3rd Author's Affiliation Sony Corporation
4th Author's Name Atsushi MITSUDA
4th Author's Affiliation Sony Corporation
5th Author's Name Toru AKISHITA
5th Author's Affiliation Sony Corporation
6th Author's Name Taizo SHIRAI
6th Author's Affiliation Sony Corporation
Date 2011-12-14
Paper # ISEC2011-67
Volume (vol) vol.111
Number (no) 337
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 26
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