[Resource Topic] 2018/617: Two Notions of Differential Equivalence on Sboxes

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Title:
Two Notions of Differential Equivalence on Sboxes

Authors: Christina Boura, Anne Canteaut, Jérémy Jean, Valentin Suder

Abstract:

In this work, we discuss two notions of differential equivalence on Sboxes. First, we introduce the notion of DDT-equivalence which applies to vectorial Boolean functions that share the same difference distribution table (DDT). Next, we compare this notion to what we call the \gamma-equivalence, applying to vectorial Boolean functions whose DDTs have the same support. We discuss the relation between these two equivalence notions, demonstrate that the number of DDT- or \gamma-equivalent functions is invariant under EA- and CCZ-equivalence and provide an algorithm for computing the DDT-equivalence and the \gamma-equivalence classes of a given function. We study the sizes of these classes for some families of Sboxes. Finally, we prove a result that shows that the rows of the DDT of an APN permutation are pairwise distinct.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/617

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