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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-019-16-2453</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23930</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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          <subject>C.2.0 - General</subject>
          <subject>D.4.6 - Security and Protection</subject>
          <subject>E.3 - DATA ENCRYPTION</subject>
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        <article-title>Observations of Skipjack-like Structure with SP/SPS Round Function</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Cui</surname>
            <given-names>Ting</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">cuiting_1209@hotmail.com</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Jin</surname>
            <given-names>Chenhui</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Zhang</surname>
            <given-names>Guoshuang</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Information Science and Technology Institute, Zhengzhou, China</addr-line>
        <institution>Information Science and Technology Institute</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Zhengzhou</addr-line>
        <country>China</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Science and Technology on Information Assurance Laboratory, Beijing, China</addr-line>
        <institution>Science and Technology on Information Assurance Laboratory</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Beijing</addr-line>
        <country>China</country>
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      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Ting Cui (<email xlink:type="simple">cuiting_1209@hotmail.com</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2013</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2013</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>19</volume>
      <issue>16</issue>
      <fpage>2453</fpage>
      <lpage>2471</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/D8A099F4-AB40-537C-B607-3CE908FD79ED">D8A099F4-AB40-537C-B607-3CE908FD79ED</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/5506111">5506111</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>15</day>
          <month>07</month>
          <year>2013</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>27</day>
          <month>09</month>
          <year>2013</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Ting Cui, Chenhui Jin, Guoshuang Zhang</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Impossible differential cryptanalysis is an important tool for evaluating the security level of a block cipher, and the key step of this cryptanalysis is to find the longest impossible differential. This paper focuses on retrieving impossible differentials for m-cell Skipjack-like structure with SP/SPS round function (named SkipjackSP and SkipjackSPS resp.). Up to now, known longest impossible differentials in m-cell Skipjack-like structures is m2 rounds. In this paper, we provide some new m2 rounds impossible differentials for these two structures. Further, we prove that if P layer is chosen from binary matrices, we can always retrieve m2 + 1 rounds impossible differentials for these two structures, and m2 + 2 rounds impossible differentials for SkipjackSP. Moreover, if P layer satisfies some satiable conditions, we may further obtain m2 + 2 rounds impossible differential for SkipjackSPS. Our results show that we should choose P layer carefully when employing these two structures.</p>
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