경량 블록 표준 암호화 기술의 취약성과 최적화

초록

As various smart devices based on wireless internet and IoT(Internet of Things) technologies proliferate, the demand for lightweight block cipher technology continues to rise. Lightweight block ciphers have become an essential component for ensuring data security, integrity, and authentication in smart devices operating within low-power and resource-constrained environments. However, as cryptanalysis techniques against existing lightweight block ciphers advance, the necessity for structural improvement is emerging. In this paper, to enhance lightweight block cipher security, we propose a Statistical Path Redesign(SPR) technique achieved at zero-cost, incurring absolutely no additional logic gate overhead. Using this SPR technique, we analyze the vulnerabilities of the SPN(Substitution-Permutation Network)-based PRESENT[2] and ARX(Addition-Rotation-XOR)-based HIGHT[3] architectures which are both registered as international standards for lightweight ciphers, and propose optimized improvement schemes. Finally, through rigorous algebraic verification and extensive simulation results, we demonstrate that the enhanced lightweight block ciphers fundamentally evade known attack vectors while maintaining the performance profiles of the originally proposed designs.