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GFSPX: an efficient lightweight block cipher for resource-constrained IoT nodes

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With the popularization of Internet of Things applications, trillions of new devices with different application requirements, such as smart wearables and smart home appliances, will be connected to the network. Hence, it is crucial to ensure the data transmission security of these low-power and multifunctional sensor nodes. In this paper, a novel lightweight block cipher, GFSPX, is proposed for resource-constrained microdevices. The proposed algorithm combines a generalized Feistel structure with the substitution permutation networks structure to design the round function, which effectively addresses the inherent problem of slow diffusion in the traditional Feistel structure. Furthermore, the introduction of Addition or AND, Rotation, XOR operations in the round function to process part of the plaintext reduces the demand for hardware resource of the algorithm. The avalanche test results indicate that the GFSPX algorithm has strong diffusion and can satisfy the avalanche effect in just six rounds. The security analysis results verify the security of the GFSPX algorithm against differential and linear cryptanalysis attacks, algebraic attacks, structural attacks and key scheduling attacks. Finally, the performance analysis results indicate that the hardware implementation cost of GFSPX algorithm is relatively low, requiring only 1715 GE based on 0.13 micron logic process. In addition, the software implementation of this algorithm works well at an encryption rate of 12.31 Mb/s.

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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61902156 and 62072217.

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    Xing Zhang, Chenyang Shao & Changda Wang

  2. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China

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Zhang, X., Shao, C., Li, T. et al. GFSPX: an efficient lightweight block cipher for resource-constrained IoT nodes. J Supercomput 80, 25256–25282 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-024-06412-2

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