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Highly nonlinear balanced Boolean functions with good local and global avalanche characteristics

✍ Scribed by Subhamoy Maitra


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
81 KB
Volume
83
Category
Article
ISSN
0020-0190

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✦ Synopsis


Here we deal with an interesting subset of n-variable balanced Boolean functions which satisfy strict avalanche criteria. These functions achieve the sum-of-square indicator value (a measure for global avalanche criteria) strictly less than 2 2n+1 and nonlinearity strictly greater than 2 n-1 -2 n/2 . These parameters are currently best known. Moreover, these functions do not possess any nonzero linear structure. The technique involves a well-known simple construction coupled with very good initial functions obtained by computer search, which were not known earlier.