Distinguishing Lightweight Block Ciphers in Encrypted Images

In the IoT era, lightweight block ciphers are essential for encrypting user data and ensuring privacy. With billions of devices requiring unique encryption schemes, constructing distinguishers to assess cryptographic strength is crucial. Researchers have developed distinguishers to differentiate between a cipher and random data and to identify encryption schemes used during communication. With advanced computing resources, researchers have explored ML applications in cryptography, focusing on protecting multimedia data through various encryption methods and improving cryptanalysis techniques using deep learning.