Security evaluation on Simeck against zero-correlation linear cryptanalysis

@article{Zhang2018SecurityEO,
  title={Security evaluation on Simeck against zero-correlation linear cryptanalysis},
  author={Kai Zhang and Jie Guan and B. Hu and Dongdai Lin},
  journal={IET Inf. Secur.},
  year={2018},
  volume={12},
  pages={87-93}
}
Since proposed by the National Security Agency in June 2013, two lightweight block ciphers-SIMON and SPECK have attracted the attention of cryptographers from all over the world. At CHES 2015, Simeck, a new block cipher inspired from both SIMON and SPECK is proposed, which is more compact and efficient. However, the security evaluation on Simeck against zero-correlation linear cryptanalysis seems missing from the specification. The main focus of this study is to fill this gap and evaluate the… 
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