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A revisited security evaluation of Simeck family ciphers against impossible differential cryptanalysis

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This work was partially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61802437, 61972248, 61902428, 62102448) and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2020M681314).

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    Kai Zhang, Jie Guan & Bin Hu

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 201100, China

    Kai Zhang, Xuejia Lai & Lei Wang

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Zhang, K., Lai, X., Wang, L. et al. A revisited security evaluation of Simeck family ciphers against impossible differential cryptanalysis. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 66, 139106 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-022-3466-x

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