• DocumentCode
    86346
  • Title

    On the Walsh Transform of a Class of Functions From Niho Exponents

  • Author

    Nian Li ; Helleseth, Tor ; Kholosha, A. ; Xiaohu Tang

  • Author_Institution
    Inf. Security & Nat. Comput. Grid Lab., Southwest Jiaotong Univ., Chengdu, China
  • Volume
    59
  • Issue
    7
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    Jul-13
  • Firstpage
    4662
  • Lastpage
    4667
  • Abstract
    In this paper, a class of functions from Niho exponents with four-valued Walsh transform is obtained for any prime by a uniform method, and the distribution of the Walsh transform values is also completely determined. In particular, this class of functions is proven to be bent for a special case. Although it is shown that the obtained bent functions are equivalent to the Leander-Kholosha´s class of bent functions, a direct and much simpler proof for the bentness of this kind of Niho functions is provided.
  • Keywords
    Walsh functions; cryptography; transforms; Leander-Kholosha class; Niho exponents; bent functions; cryptographic functions; cryptographic properties; four-valued Walsh transform; functions class; Correlation; Cryptography; Educational institutions; Informatics; Information theory; Transforms; Distribution; Niho exponent; Parseval´s equation; Walsh transform;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.2013.2252053
  • Filename
    6476720