Title
The relationship between propagation characteristic and nonlinearity of cryptographic functions
Abstract
The connections among the various nonlinearity criteria is currently an important topic in the area of designing and analyzing cryptographic function. 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.
Publication Details
Jennifer Seberry, Xian-Mo Zhang and Yuliang Zheng, The relationship between propagation characteristic and nonlinearity of cryptographic functions, Journal of Universal Computer Science, 1, No. 2 (1995), 136-150.