Paper 2020/1131

Several classes of minimal binary linear codes violating the Aschikhmin-Barg's bound

Enes Pasalic, René Rodríguez, Fengrong Zhang, and Yongzhuang Wei

Abstract

Minimal linear codes are a special class of codes which have important applications in secret sharing and secure two-party computation. These codes are characterized by the property that none of the codewords is covered by some other codeword. Denoting by $w_{min}$ and $w_{max}$ minimal and maximal weight of the codewords respectively, such codes are relatively easy to design when the ratio $w_{min}/w_{max} > 1/2$ (known as Aschikhmin-Barg's bound). On the other hand, there are few known classes of minimal codes violating this bound, hence having the property $w_{min}/w_{max} \leq 1/2$. In this article, we provide several explicit classes of minimal binary linear codes violating the Aschikhmin-Barg's bound, at the same time achieving a great variety of the ratio $w_{min}/w_{max}$. Our first generic method employs suitable characteristic functions of relatively low weight within the range $[n+1, 2^{n-2}]$. The second approach addresses a specification of characteristic functions covering the weights in $[2^{n-2}+1, 2^{n-2} + 2^{n-3}-1]$ and containing a skewed (removing one element) affine subspace of dimension $n-2$. Finally, we also characterize an infinite family of such codes that utilize the class of so-called root Boolean functions of weight $2^{n-1}-(n-1)$, which are useful in certain hardware testing applications. Consequently, many infinite classes of minimal codes crossing the Aschikhmin-Barg's bound, with a wide range of the weight of their characteristic functions, are deduced. In certain cases we also completely specify the weight distribution of resulting codes.

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Keywords
Minimal linear codesAschikhmin-Barg's boundCharacteristic functionsRoot Boolean functions.
Contact author(s)
rene7ca @ gmail com
History
2020-09-21: received
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https://ia.cr/2020/1131
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BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2020/1131,
      author = {Enes Pasalic and René Rodríguez and Fengrong Zhang and Yongzhuang Wei},
      title = {Several classes of minimal binary linear codes violating the Aschikhmin-Barg's bound},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2020/1131},
      year = {2020},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1131}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1131}
}
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