### On the Affine Equivalence and Nonlinearity Preserving Bijective Mappings

İsa Sertkaya and Ali Doğanaksoy

##### Abstract

It is well-known that affine equivalence relations keep nonlineaerity invariant for all Boolean functions. The set of all Boolean functions, $\mathcal{F}_n$, over $\bbbf_2^n$, is naturally regarded as the $2^n$ dimensional vector space, $\bbbf_2^{2^n}$. Thus, while analyzing the transformations acting on $\mathcal{F}_n$, $S_{2^{2^n}}$, the group of all bijective mappings, defined from $\bbbf_2^{2^n}$ onto itself should be considered. As it is shown in \cite{ser,ser:dog,ser:dog:2}, there exist non-affine bijective transformations that preserve nonlinearity. In this paper, first, we prove that the group of affine equivalence relations is isomorphic to the automorphism group of Sylvester Hadamard matrices. Then, we show that new nonlinearity preserving non-affine bijective mappings also exist. Moreover, we propose that the automorphism group of nonlinearity classes, should be studied as a subgroup of $S_{2^{2^n}}$, since it contains transformations which are not affine equivalence relations.

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Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords
Boolean functionsnonlinearityaffine equivalenceautomorphism groupsSylvester Hadamard matrices
Contact author(s)
isa @ uekae tubitak gov tr
History
2011-01-01: revised
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2010/655

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BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2010/655,
author = {İsa Sertkaya and Ali Doğanaksoy},
title = {On the Affine Equivalence and Nonlinearity Preserving Bijective Mappings},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2010/655},
year = {2010},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/655}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/655}
}

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