[Resource Topic] 2018/769: Constructing APN functions through isotopic shifts

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Title:
Constructing APN functions through isotopic shifts

Authors: Lilya Budaghyan, Marco Calderini, Claude Carlet, Robert S. Coulter, Irene Villa

Abstract:

Almost perfect nonlinear (APN) functions over fields of characteristic 2 play an important role in cryptography, coding theory and, more generally, information theory as well as mathematics. Building new APN families is a challenge which has not been successfully addressed for more than seven years now. The most general known equivalence relation preserving APN property in characteristic 2 is CCZ-equivalence. Extended to general characteristic, it also preserves planarity. In the case of quadratic planar functions, it is a particular case of isotopic equivalence. We apply the idea of isotopic equivalence to transform APN functions in characteristic 2 into other functions, some of which can be APN. We deduce new quadratic APN functions and a new quadratic APN family.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/769

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