Research Article

MILP/MIQCP-Based Fully Automatic Method of Searching for Differential-Linear Distinguishers for SIMON-Like Ciphers

Table 1

The DL distinguishers for round-reduced SIMON and SIMECK.

CipherRoundTheoretical correlationExperimental correlationReferences

SIMON3213[24]
13This work
14This work
SIMON4813[24]
15This work
16This work
17This work
SIMON6420This work
SIMON9625This work
26This work
SIMON12831This work
32This work
SIMECK3214This work
SIMECK4817This work
18This work
SIMECK6422This work
23This work
24This work
25This work

Note: aDue to the complexity of the data, the experimental correlation refers to the segmented experimental validation of theoretical correlation. For more details, see Section 4 and the Appendix.