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Construction of rotation symmetric Boolean functions with optimal algebraic immunity and high nonlinearity

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Recent research shows that the class of rotation symmetric Boolean functions is potentially rich in functions of cryptographic significance. In this paper, based on the knowledge of compositions of an integer, we present two new kinds of construction of rotation symmetric Boolean functions having optimal algebraic immunity on either odd variables or even variables. Our new functions are of much better nonlinearity than all the existing theoretical constructions of rotation symmetric Boolean functions with optimal algebraic immunity. Further, the algebraic degree of our rotation symmetric Boolean functions are also high enough.

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  1. Provincial Key Lab of Information Coding and Transmission, Institute of Mobile Communications, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China

    Sihong Su & Xiaohu Tang

  2. College of Mathematics and Information Science, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China

    Sihong Su

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Su, S., Tang, X. Construction of rotation symmetric Boolean functions with optimal algebraic immunity and high nonlinearity. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 71, 183–199 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-012-9727-x

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