LTLBC: a low-latency lightweight block cipher for internet of things.

The low-latency property is becoming increasingly crucial in response to the demand for data processing in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment, especially in lightweight cryptography. A low-latency lightweight block cipher called LTLBC is proposed in this paper. In particular, we propose a hybrid approach of word-wise involutive mapping and a bit-wise permutation, with careful selection of the shift and permutation parameters. This scheme enables LTLBC to achieve better diffusion than Midori and MANTIS. Also, a 4×4\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym}\usepackage{amsfonts}\usepackage{amssymb}\usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$4\times 4$$\end{document} S-box which is constructed through a gate-level bottom-up circuit search has good security and latency characteristics. LTLBC mainly focuses on the hardware environment of fully unrolled architecture. LTLBC achieves a minimum latency of around 4.73 ns, with a total area of only 10007.6 μm2\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\usepackage{amsmath}\usepackage{wasysym}\usepackage{amsfonts}\usepackage{amssymb}\usepackage{amsbsy}\usepackage{mathrsfs}\usepackage{upgreek}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt}\begin{document}$$\mu m^2$$\end{document} based on NanGate 45nm technology. The comprehensive safety analysis shows LTLBC has sufficient redundancy rounds to resist attacks, such as differential cryptanalysis, linear cryptanalysis, impossible differential cryptanalysis, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]