Due to implementation constraints the XOR operation is widely used in order to combine plaintext and key bit-strings in secretkey block ciphers. This choice directly induces the cl...
The nonlinearity profile of a Boolean function (i.e. the sequence of its minimum Hamming distances nlr(f) to all functions of degrees at most r, for r 1) is a cryptographic crite...
Abstract. In this paper, we introduce the concept of kth-order nonhomomorphicity of mappings or S-boxes as an alternative indicator that forecasts nonlinearity characteristics of a...