Piccolo: An Ultra-Lightweight Blockcipher

By Kyoji Shibutani, Takanori Isobe, Harunaga Hiwatari, Atsushi Mitsuda, Toru Akishita, Taizo Shirai. Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, 2011

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Hardware and Architecture

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RECTANGLE: a bit-slice lightweight block cipher suitable for multiple platforms (2015, unknown): “At size size Block (µm) (GE) 100 kHz (kbps) Block Ciphers AES-128 [43] 128 128 226 0.13 2400 56.6 LED-64 [6] 64 64 1248 0.18 966 5.1 PICCOLO-80 [7] 80 64 27 0.13 1496 237 PRESENT-80 [44] 80 64 32 0.18 1570 200 RECTANGLE-80 80 64 26 0.13 1599.5 246 RECTANGLE-128 128 64 26 0.13 2063.5 246 Stream Ciphe”
PRINCE - A Low-Latency Block Cipher for Pervasive Computing Applications - Extended Abstract (2012, methodology): “For the same time constraints and technologies, PRINCE uses 6-7 times less area than PRESENT-80 and 14-15 times less area than AES-128.”
The SKINNY Family of Block Ciphers and its Low-Latency Variant MANTIS (2016, methodology): “We believe this extra NOT gate was added by the PICCOLO designers to avoid fixed points (actually, if fixed points were to be removed at the Sbox level, the PICCOLO candidate would be the best choice), but in SKINNY the fixed points are handled with the use of constants to save some extra GE.”
Lightweight Cryptography Algorithms for Resource-Constrained IoT Devices: A Review, Comparison and Research Opportunities (2021, background): “Piccolo [110] is another ultra-lightweight cryptography algorithm suitable for extremely restricted environmental devices (RFID, sensors, etc.).”
A roadmap for security challenges in the Internet of Things (2017, unknown): “…led to plenty number block ciphers primitives for IoT, including mCRYPTON [36], HIGHT [37], SEA [38], DESXL [39], CLEFIA [40], PRESENT [41], KATAN, KTANTAN [42], PRINT Cipher [43], TEA/XTEA [43], Kasumi [44], LED [45], CLEFIA [40], KLEIN [46], Piccolo [47], LBlock [48], Simon and Speck [49], etc.”
Automatic Security Evaluation and (Related-key) Differential Characteristic Search: Application to SIMON, PRESENT, LBlock, DES(L) and Other Bit-Oriented Block Ciphers (2014, unknown): “Klein [29] 0 312 LBlock S6 12 205 Piccolo [57] 12 202 LBlock S7 12 205 TWINE [60] 0 324 LBlock S8 12 205 PRINCE [17] 0 300 LBlock S9 12 205 MIBS 0 378 Serpent S0 6 327 PRESENT/LED [31] 6 327 Serpent S1 6 327 LBlock S0 12 205 Serpent S2 6 325 LBlock S1 12 205 Serpent S3 0 368 LBlock S2 12 205 Serpent”
Midori: A Block Cipher for Low Energy (2015, background): “Feistel structures (e.g. TWINE [34], Piccolo [32], SIMON [6]) usually apply a round function to only one half of the state and as such structures can be implemented in hardware with low average power.”