Paper 2013/007 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2013/007 ↗
A Matrix Approach for Constructing Quadratic APN Functions
Abstract
We find a one to one correspondence between quadratic APN functions without linear or constant terms and a special kind of matrices (We call such matrices as QAMs). Based on the nice mathematical structures of the QAMs, we have developed efficient algorithms to construct quadratic APN functions. On $\mathbb{F}_{2^7}$, we have found more than 470 classes of new CCZ-inequivalent quadratic APN functions, which is 20 times more than the known ones. Before this paper, there are only 23 classes of CCZ-inequivalent APN functions on $\mathbb{F}_{2^{8}}$ have been found. With our method, we have found more than 2000 classes of new CCZ-inequivalent quadratic APN functions, and this number is still increasing quickly.
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- 2015-04-27: last updated
- 2013-01-11: published
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- https://ia.cr/2013/007
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- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2013/007,
author = {Yuyin Yu and Mingsheng Wang and Yongqiang Li},
title = {A Matrix Approach for Constructing Quadratic APN Functions},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2013/007},
year = {2013},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/007}
}