Improved differential-neural cryptanalysis for round-reduced SIMECK32/64

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 62172319, 62172427), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. QTZX23090) and the Postgraduate Scientific Research Innovation Project of Hunan Province (No. CX20220016).

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests or financial conflicts to disclose.

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