• DocumentCode
    2274239
  • Title

    On almost perfect nonlinear mappings over F/sup n//sub 2/

  • Author

    Berger, Thierry P. ; Canteaut, Anne ; Charpin, Pascale ; Laigle-Chapuy, Yann

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. des Sci. de Limoges, LACO
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    4-9 Sept. 2005
  • Firstpage
    2002
  • Lastpage
    2006
  • Abstract
    We investigate some open problems on almost perfect nonlinear (APN) functions over a finite field of characteristic 2. We provide a new characterization of APN mappings and of APN permutations by means of their component functions. We also focus on the case of quadratic functions. Most notably, we prove that a class of quadratic functions cannot be APN. Our result strengthens the conjecture that all quadratic APN functions are power functions, up to equivalence
  • Keywords
    cryptography; nonlinear functions; almost perfect nonlinear functions; component functions; cryptography; nonlinear mappings; quadratic functions; Boolean functions; Cryptography; Electrical resistance measurement; Galois fields; Linear code; Security;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory, 2005. ISIT 2005. Proceedings. International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Adelaide, SA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9151-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.2005.1523696
  • Filename
    1523696