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Concatenating Indicators of Flats for Designing Cryptographic Functions

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Boolean functions with good cryptographic characteristics are needed for the design of robust pseudo-random generators for stream ciphers and of S-boxes for block ciphers. Very few general constructions of such cryptographic Boolean functions are known. The main ones correspond to concatenating affine or quadratic functions. We introduce a general construction corresponding to the concatenation of indicators of flats. We show that the functions it permits to design can present very good cryptographic characteristics.

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Carlet, C. Concatenating Indicators of Flats for Designing Cryptographic Functions. Des Codes Crypt 36, 189–202 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-004-1704-6

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