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In this paper, we study the differential spectra of differentially 6-uniform functions among the family of monomials \(\big \{x\mapsto x^{2^t-1},\; 1<t<n\big \}\) defined in \(\mathbb {F}_{2^{n}}\). We show that the functions \(x\mapsto x^{2^t-1}\) when \(t=\frac{n-1}{2},\; \frac{n+3}{2}\) with odd \(n\) have a differential spectrum similar to the one of the function \(x\mapsto x^7\) which belongs to the same family. We also study the functions \(x\mapsto x^{2^t-1}\) when \(t=\frac{kn+1}{3},\frac{(3-k)n+2}{3}\) with \(kn\equiv 2\,\mathrm{mod}\,3\) which are known to be differentially 6-uniform and show that their complete differential spectrum can be provided under an assumption related to a new formulation of the Kloosterman sum. To provide the differential spectra for these functions, a recent result of Helleseth and Kholosha regarding the number of roots of polynomials of the form \(x^{2^t+1}+x+a\) is widely used in this paper. A discussion regarding the non-linearity and the algebraic degree of the vectorial functions \(x\mapsto x^{2^t-1}\) is also proposed.

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The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers of WCC 2013 and DCC for helpful comments. The work of Léo Perrin was done during his Master’s Thesis at Aalto University.

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    Céline Blondeau

  2. University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg city, Luxembourg

    Léo Perrin

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Blondeau, C., Perrin, L. More differentially 6-uniform power functions. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 73, 487–505 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-014-9948-2

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