• Classification of quadratic APN functions with coefficients in F2 for dimensions up to 9 

      Yu, Yuyin; Kaleyski, Nikolay Stoyanov; Budaghyan, Lilya; Li, Yongqiang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Almost perfect nonlinear (APN) and almost bent (AB) functions are integral components of modern block ciphers and play a fundamental role in symmetric cryptography. In this paper, we describe a procedure for searching for ...
    • The differential spectrum of a ternary power mapping 

      Xia, Yongbo; Zhang, Xianglai; Li, Chunlei; Helleseth, Tor (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      A function f(x)from the finite field GF(pn)to itself is said to be differentially δ-uniform when the maximum number of solutions x ∈GF(pn)of f(x +a) −f(x) =bfor any a ∈GF(pn)∗and b ∈GF(pn)is equal to δ. Let p =3and d =3n−3. ...
    • On construction and (non)existence of c-(almost) perfect nonlinear functions 

      Bartoli, Daniele; Calderini, Marco (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Functions with low differential uniformity have relevant applications in cryptography. Recently, functions with low c-differential uniformity attracted lots of attention. In particular, so-called APcN and PcN functions ...
    • On equivalence between known families of quadratic APN functions 

      Budaghyan, Lilya; Calderini, Marco; Villa, Irene (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      This paper is dedicated to a question whether the currently known families of quadratic APN polynomials are pairwise different up to CCZ-equivalence. We reduce the list of these families to those CCZ-inequivalent to each ...
    • Relation between o-equivalence and EA-equivalence for Niho bent functions 

      Davidova, Diana; Budaghyan, Lilya; Carlet, Claude Michael; Helleseth, Tor; Ihringer, Ferdinand; Penttila, Tim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Boolean functions, and bent functions in particular, are considered up to so-called EA-equivalence, which is the most general known equivalence relation preserving bentness of functions. However, for a special type of bent ...