On designs and multiplier groups constructed from Almost Perfect Nonlinear functions

Coauthor A. Pott.

In Cryptography and Coding -- Twelfth IMA International Conference, IMACC 2009 (M. G. Parker, ed.), LNCS 5921 (2009), 383-401.

doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-10868-6_23


Errata in the printed version:

Page 393, the paragraph before Proposition 7: "It turns out that in all known examples with n <=8 so far, ..." should be "It turns out that in all known examples with n <= 9 so far, ..."
Moreover delete the following sentence in []-brackets.

The errors are corrcted in the attached PDF.


Abstract:

Let f:F2n to F2n be an almost perfect nonlinear function (APN). The set Df:={(a,b) : f(x+a)-f(x)=b has two solutions} can be used to distinguish APN functions up to equivalence. We investigate the multiplier groups of theses sets Df. This extends earlier work done by the authors.


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