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Table 1 Symbols and explanations

From: The differential fault analysis on block cipher FeW

Symbols

Descriptions

DFA

Differential fault analysis

FeW

Feather weight cipher

CPA

Chosen ciphertext attack

MK

80-bit master secret key

MKi

The i-th intermediate state of MK

Ki

The leftmost 16 bits of MKi

\(RK_{i}\)

The i-th round subkey

\(RK_{i}^{j}\)

The j-th nibble of \(RK_{i}\)

C

Correctly generated ciphertext

\(C^{*}\)

The faulty ciphertext

 <  <  < m

Left cyclic shift m bits

[i]2

Binary form of i

Bitwise exclusive-OR operation

||

The concatenation of two strings

S

The S-Box of FeW

P

The permutation of FeW

F

The round function

L1, L2

The linear functions of FeW

\(X_{i}^{L}\)

The left part of i-th encryption state

\(X_{i}^{R}\)

The right part of i-th encryption state

\(X_{i,j}^{L}\)

The j-th Nibble of \(X_{i}^{L}\)

\(X_{i,j}^{R}\)

The j-th Nibble of \(X_{i}^{R}\)