Research Article
A Key Selected S-Box Mechanism and Its Investigation in Modern Block Cipher Design
Table 2
The numbers of disjoint subkey bits involved in the propagation of a single nibble position through 3 and 4 rounds.
| Position | Nibble | 3 rounds | 4 rounds | Ordinary mechanism | Key selected mechanism | Ordinary mechanism | Key selected mechanism |
| 0 | 58 | 66 | 87 | 95 | 1 | 59 | 63 | 88 | 92 | 2 | 57 | 64 | 86 | 93 | 3 | 58 | 71 | 88 | 101 | 4 | 57 | 68 | 87 | 97 | 5 | 57 | 62 | 87 | 92 | 6 | 57 | 65 | 86 | 94 | 7 | 57 | 69 | 86 | 98 |
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