Optimized Piccolo Lightweight Block Cipher: Area Efficient Implementation
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Piccolo algorithm is one of the lightweight block ciphers designed specifically for low-resource devices which present physical constraints in terms of area, power, and memory. Various hardware architectures for Piccolo block cipher have been proposed in recent years with the aim of obtaining a more appropriate low-resource design for specific constrained applications. The latter must meet real-time processing constraints without affecting the need for hardware resources. Finding a good compromise between computation time and implementation resource consumption is a major consideration in the design process. In this paper, we suggest six serial hardware architectures for Piccolo lightweight algorithm with a 128 bits key length. Proposed architectures are compared to existing designs based on hardware resource occupancy, latency, and throughput. Also, we tested the security of the Piccolo algorithm, and the obtained results show the good robustness of the Piccolo block cipher against statistical attacks. Thus, we can use the Piccolo algorithm in lightweight applications that require a high level of privacy.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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