Relating Nonlinearity to Propagation Characteristics

Jennifer Seberry, University of Wollongong
Xian-Mo Zhang
Yuliang Zheng

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Jennifer Seberry, Xian-Mo Zhang and Yuliang Zheng, Relating Nonlinearity to Propagation Characteristics, Proceedings of 1995 Cryptography Policy and Algorithms Conference, pp.283-297, Brisbane, July 1995.

Abstract

The connections among the various nonlinearity criteria is currently an important topic in the area of designing and analyzing cryptographic functions. In this paper we show a quantitative relationship between propagation characteristics and nonlinearity, two critical indicators of the cryptographic strength of a Boolean function. We also present a tight lower bound on the nonlinearity of a cryptographic function that has propagation characteristics.