Linear cryptanalysis, introduced last year by Matsui, will most certainly open-up the way to
new attack methods which may be made more efficient when compared or combined with …

This paper introduces a practical algorithm for deriving the best differential characteristic and
the best linear expression of DES. Its principle is based on a duality between differential …

Arbiter Physically Unclonable Functions (APUFs), while being relatively lightweight, are
extremely vulnerable to modeling attacks. Hence, various compositions of APUFs such as …

A general explicit construction of bent functions is described, which unifies well known
constructions due to Maiorana-McFarland and Dillon as two opposite extremal cases. Within …

We show that some widely accepted criteria for cryptographic functions, including the strict
avalanche criterion (SAC) and the propagation criterion, have various limitations in …

The book introduces new techniques that imply rigorous lower bounds on the com plexity of
some number-theoretic and cryptographic problems. It also establishes certain attractive …

An S-box is the most important part of a symmetric encryption algorithm. Various schemes
are put forward by using chaos theory. In this paper, a construction method of S-boxes with …

In this contribution we consider the stability of linearity and differential uniformity of vector
Boolean functions under certain constructions and modifications. These include …

This correspondence studies resilient functions which have applications in fault-tolerant
distributed computing, quantum cryptographic key distribution, and random sequence …

Three of the most important criteria for cryptographically strong Boolean functions are the
balancedness, the nonlinearity and the propagation criterion. This paper studies systematic …