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Construction of cryptographically important Boolean functions

Maity, S and Johansson, Thomas LU orcid (2002) INDOCRYPT 2002: Third International Conference on Cryptology 2551. p.234-245
Abstract
Boolean functions are used as nonlinear combining functions in certain stream ciphers. A Boolean function is said to be correlation immune if its output leaks no information about its input values. Balanced correlation immune functions are called resilient functions. Finding methods for easy construction of resilient functions with additional properties is an active research area. Maitra and Pasalic [3] have constructed 8-variable 1-resilient Boolean functions with nonlinearity 116. Their technique interlinks mathematical results with classical computer search. In this paper we describe a new technique to construct 8-variable 1-resilient Boolean functions with the same nonlinearity. Using a similar technique, we directly construct... (More)
Boolean functions are used as nonlinear combining functions in certain stream ciphers. A Boolean function is said to be correlation immune if its output leaks no information about its input values. Balanced correlation immune functions are called resilient functions. Finding methods for easy construction of resilient functions with additional properties is an active research area. Maitra and Pasalic [3] have constructed 8-variable 1-resilient Boolean functions with nonlinearity 116. Their technique interlinks mathematical results with classical computer search. In this paper we describe a new technique to construct 8-variable 1-resilient Boolean functions with the same nonlinearity. Using a similar technique, we directly construct 10-variable (resp. 12-variable), 1-resilient functions with nonlinearity 488 (resp. 1996). Finally, we describe some results on the construction of n-variable t-resilient functions with maximum nonlinearity. (Less)
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function, stream cipher, combinatorial problems, resiliency, correlation immunity, algebraic degree, Boolean function, balancedness, bent function, nonlinearity, perfectly nonlinear
host publication
Progress in Cryptology / Lecture Notes in Computer Science
volume
2551
pages
234 - 245
publisher
Springer
conference name
INDOCRYPT 2002: Third International Conference on Cryptology
conference location
India Hyderabad, India
conference dates
2002-12-16 - 2002-12-18
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  • wos:000181957300019
  • scopus:84974722388
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0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI
10.1007/3-540-36231-2_19
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English
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  abstract     = {{Boolean functions are used as nonlinear combining functions in certain stream ciphers. A Boolean function is said to be correlation immune if its output leaks no information about its input values. Balanced correlation immune functions are called resilient functions. Finding methods for easy construction of resilient functions with additional properties is an active research area. Maitra and Pasalic [3] have constructed 8-variable 1-resilient Boolean functions with nonlinearity 116. Their technique interlinks mathematical results with classical computer search. In this paper we describe a new technique to construct 8-variable 1-resilient Boolean functions with the same nonlinearity. Using a similar technique, we directly construct 10-variable (resp. 12-variable), 1-resilient functions with nonlinearity 488 (resp. 1996). Finally, we describe some results on the construction of n-variable t-resilient functions with maximum nonlinearity.}},
  author       = {{Maity, S and Johansson, Thomas}},
  booktitle    = {{Progress in Cryptology / Lecture Notes in Computer Science}},
  issn         = {{0302-9743}},
  keywords     = {{function; stream cipher; combinatorial problems; resiliency; correlation immunity; algebraic degree; Boolean function; balancedness; bent function; nonlinearity; perfectly nonlinear}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{234--245}},
  publisher    = {{Springer}},
  title        = {{Construction of cryptographically important Boolean functions}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36231-2_19}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/3-540-36231-2_19}},
  volume       = {{2551}},
  year         = {{2002}},
}