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SCENERY: a lightweight block cipher based on Feistel structure

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In this paper, we propose a new lightweight block cipher called SCENERY. The main purpose of SCENERY design applies to hardware and software platforms. SCENERY is a 64-bit block cipher supporting 80-bit keys, and its data processing consists of 28 rounds. The round function of SCENERY consists of 8 4 × 4 S-boxes in parallel and a 32 × 32 binary matrix, and we can implement SCENERY with some basic logic instructions. The hardware implementation of SCENERY only requires 1438 GE based on 0.18 um CMOS technology, and the software implementation of encrypting or decrypting a block takes approximately 1516 clock cycles on 8-bit microcontrollers and 364 clock cycles on 64-bit processors. Compared with other encryption algorithms, the performance of SCENERY is well balanced for both hardware and software. By the security analyses, SCENERY can achieve enough security margin against known attacks, such as differential cryptanalysis, linear cryptanalysis, impossible differential cryptanalysis and related-key attacks.

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This research was supported by the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department (19A072), Application-oriented Special Disciplines, Double First-Class University Project of Hunan Province (**angjiaotong [2018] 469), the Science and Technology Plan Project of Hunan Province (2016TP1020).

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  1. Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing and Application, Hengyang Normal University, Hengyang, 421002, China

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  2. College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, China

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**gya Feng received the BS degree from Hebei University of Science and Technology, China in 2015. She has been working towards her Master’s degree in Hunan Normal University, China since 2018. Her main research interest lies in embedded computing and information security.

Lang Li received the BS degree in circuits and systems from Hunan Normal University, China in 1996 and the master’s and PhD degrees in computer science from Hunan University, China in 2006 and 2010, respectively. Since 2011, he has been a Professor with the College of Computer Science and Technology, Hengyang Normal University, China. His research interests include embedded computing and information security.

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Feng, J., Li, L. SCENERY: a lightweight block cipher based on Feistel structure. Front. Comput. Sci. 16, 163813 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-020-0115-9

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