Research Article

Improved Biclique Cryptanalysis of the Lightweight Block Cipher Piccolo

Table 1

Summary of previous results of different method on Piccolo.

Piccolo-80 roundsPiccolo-128 roundsMethodReference

77DifferentialReference [14]
88LinearReference [14]
99BoomerangReference [14]
99Impossible differentialReference [14]
1421MITMReference [17]
1923MITM expectationReference [14]
2528Biclique cryptanalysisReference [2]
2531Biclique cryptanalysisThis paper