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New generalized almost perfect nonlinear functions
journal contribution
posted on 2021-01-18, 16:03 authored by Ferruh Özbudak, Ana SalageanAna SalageanAPN (almost perfect non-linear) functions over finite fields of even characteristic are widely studied due to their applications to the design of symmetric ciphers resistant to differential attacks. This notion was recently generalized to GAPN (generalized APN) functions by Kuroda and Tsujie to odd characteristic p. They presented some constructions of GAPN functions, and other constructions were given by Zha et al. We present new constructions of GAPN functions both in the case of monomial and multinomial functions. Our monomial GAPN functions can be viewed as a further generalization of the Gold APN functions. We show that a certain technique used by Hou to construct permutations over finite fields also yields monomial GAPN functions. We also present several new constructions of GAPN functions which are sums of monomial GAPN functions, as well as new GAPN functions of degree p which can be written as the product of two powers of linearized polynomials. For this latter construction we describe some interesting differences between even and odd characteristic and also obtain a classification in certain cases.
Funding
Royal Society of the UK Newton Mobility Grant NI170158
History
School
- Science
Department
- Computer Science
Published in
Finite Fields and Their ApplicationsVolume
70Publisher
ElsevierVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Finite Fields and Their Applications and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ffa.2020.101796.Acceptance date
2020-12-09Publication date
2020-12-28Copyright date
2020ISSN
1071-5797eISSN
1090-2465Publisher version
Language
- en