A family of boolean functions with good cryptographic properties

Guillermo Sosa Gómez; Octavio Paez Osuna

Paper 2019/217

A family of boolean functions with good cryptographic properties

Guillermo Sosa Gómez and Octavio Paez Osuna

Abstract

In 2005, [2] Philippe Guillot presented a new construction of Boolean functions using linear codes as an extension of Maiorana-McFarland's construction of bent functions. In this paper, we study a new family of Boolean functions with cryptographically strong properties such as non- linearity, propagation criterion, resiliency and balance. The construction of cryptographically strong boolean functions is a daunting task and there is currently a wide range of algebraic techniques and heuristics for constructing such functions , however these methods can be complex, computationally difficult to implement and not always produce a sufficient variety of functions. We present in this paper a construction of Boolean functions using algebraic codes following Guillot's work.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Foundations
Publication info: Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords: Boolean functions linear codes Reed-Solomon codes
Contact author(s): octavio paezosuna @ ronininstitute org
History: 2019-02-27: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2019/217
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2019/217,
      author = {Guillermo Sosa Gómez and Octavio Paez Osuna},
      title = {A family of boolean functions with good cryptographic properties},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2019/217},
      year = {2019},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/217}
}