Cryptographic Boolean Functions and Applications, Second Edition is designed to be a comprehensive reference for the use of Boolean functions in modern cryptography. While the vast majority of research on cryptographic Boolean functions has been achieved since the 1970s, when cryptography began to be widely used in everyday transactions, in particular banking, relevant material is scattered ove…
CONTENTS: 1. Introduction. 2. Stream Ciphers. 3. Primes, Primitive Roots and Sequences. 4. Cyclotomy and Cryptographic Functions. 5. Special Primes and Sequences. 6. Highly Nonlinear Functions. 7. Difference Sets and Sequences. 8. Binary Cyclotomic Generators. 9. Analysis of Cyclotomic Generators of Order 2. 10. Nonbinary Cyclotomic Generators. 11. Generators Based on Permutations. …