Use of Simple Arithmetic Operations to Construct Efficiently Implementable Boolean functions Possessing High Nonlinearity and Good Resistance to Algebraic Attacks

Abstract

We describe a new class of Boolean functions which provide the presently best known trade-off between low computational complexity, nonlinearity and (fast) algebraic immunity. In particular, for n≤ 20, we show that there are functions in the family achieving a combination of nonlinearity and (fast) algebraic immunity which is superior to what is achieved by any other efficiently implementable function. The main novelty of our approach is to apply a judicious combination of simple integer and binary field arithmetic to Boolean function construction.