Paper 2022/669

On those Boolean functions that are coset leaders of first order Reed-Muller codes

Claude Carlet, University of Bergen, Norway, University of Paris 8, France
Serge Feukoua, University of Yaounde I
Abstract

In this paper, we study the class of those Boolean functions that are coset leaders of first order Reed-Muller codes. We study their properties and try to better understand their structure (which seems complex), by studying operations on Boolean functions that can provide coset leaders (we show that these operations all provide coset leaders when the operands are coset leaders, and that some can even produce coset leaders without the operands being coset leaders). We characterize those coset leaders that belong to the well known classes of direct sums of monomial Boolean functions and Maiorana-McFarland functions. Since all the functions of Hamming weight at most $2^{n-2}$ are automatically coset leaders, we are interested in constructing infinite classes of coset leaders having possibly Hamming weight larger than $2^{n-2}$.

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Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint.
Keywords
Boolean function nonlinearity
Contact author(s)
claude carlet @ gmail com
feukouaf @ yahoo fr
History
2022-05-31: approved
2022-05-29: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2022/669
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/669,
      author = {Claude Carlet and Serge Feukoua},
      title = {On those Boolean functions that are  coset leaders  of first order Reed-Muller codes},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2022/669},
      year = {2022},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/669}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/669}
}
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