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Mathematically constructed S-boxes arise from algebraic structures and finite field theory to ensure strong, provable cryptographic properties. These mathematically grounded constructions allow for generation of thousands of S-Boxes with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 James Kim

Block ciphers use S-boxes to create confusion in the cryptosystems. Such S-boxes are functions over $\mathbb{F}_{2^{n}}$. These functions should have low differential uniformity, high nonlinearity, and high algebraic degree in order to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Yan-Ping Wang , WeiGuo Zhang , Zhengbang Zha

Substitution Box or S-Box had been generated using 4-bit Boolean Functions (BFs) for Encryption and Decryption Algorithm of Lucifer and Data Encryption Standard (DES) in late sixties and late seventies respectively. The S-box of Advance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Sankhanil Dey. Ranjan Ghosh

Background and Objectives: Substitution-box (s-box) is one of the essential components to create confusion and nonlinear properties in cryptography. To strengthening a cipher against various attacks, including side channel attacks, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Behrooz Khadem , Saeed Rajavzade

With the tremendous benefits of internet and advanced communications, there is a serious threat from the data security perspective. There is a need of secure and robust encryption algorithm that can be implemented on each and diverse…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Iqtadar Hussain , Amir Anees , Temadher Alassiry Al-Maadeed , M. T. Mustafa

The s-box plays the vital role of creating confusion between the ciphertext and secret key in any cryptosystem, and is the only nonlinear component in many block ciphers. Dynamic s-boxes, as compared to static, improve entropy of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Ahmad Y. Al-Dweik , Iqtadar Hussain , Moutaz S. Saleh , M. T. Mustafa

The vectorial Boolean functions are employed in cryptography to build block coding algorithms. An important criterion on these functions is their resistance to the differential cryptanalysis. Nyberg defined the notion of almost perfect…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-05-02 François Rodier

Permutations over $F_{2^{2k}}$ with low differential uniform, high algebraic degree and high nonlinearity are of great cryptographical importance since they can be chosen as the substitution boxes (S-boxes) for many block ciphers. A well…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-21 Jie Peng , Chik How Tan , Qichun Wang

Most modern block ciphers are built using components whose cryptographic strength is evaluated in terms of their resistance to attacks on the whole cipher. In particular, differential properties of vectorial Boolean functions are studied…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-19 Riccardo Aragona , Marco Calderini , Massimiliano Sala

A pseudorandom code is a keyed error-correction scheme with the property that any polynomial number of encodings appear random to any computationally bounded adversary. We show that the pseudorandomness of any code tolerating a constant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Sanjam Garg , Sam Gunn , Mingyuan Wang

This paper introduces a compact and secure 16-bit substitution box (S-box) designed over the composite field $\F_{(((2^2)^2)^2)^2}$, optimized for both hardware efficiency and cryptographic robustness. The proposed S-box decomposes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Bahram Rashidi , Behrooz Khadem

APN permutations in even dimension are vectorial Boolean functions that play a special role in the design of block ciphers. We study their properties, providing some general results and some applications to the low-dimension cases. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Marco Calderini , Massimilano Sala , Irene Villa

S-boxes are an important primitive that help cryptographic algorithms to be resilient against various attacks. The resilience against specific attacks can be connected with a certain property of an S-box, and the better the property value,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Marko Djurasevic , Domagoj Jakobovic , Luca Mariot , Sihem Mesnager , Stjepan Picek

We investigate S-boxes defined by pairs of Orthogonal Cellular Automata (OCA), motivated by the fact that such CA always define bijective vectorial Boolean functions, and could thus be interesting for the design of block ciphers. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Luca Mariot , Luca Manzoni

The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is widely used and well-studied for its efficiency and strong security. This paper presents quantum circuit designs for the AES S-box by introducing the composite field \( F((2^4)^2) \) to replace the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Huinan Chen , Binbin Cai , Fei Gao , Song Lin

Functions with low differential uniformity can be used as the s-boxes of symmetric cryptosystems as they have good resistance to differential attacks. The AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) uses a differentially-4 uniform function called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-14 Carl Bracken , Gregor Leander

Due to implementation constraints the XOR operation is widely used in order to combine plaintext and key bit-strings in secret-key block ciphers. This choice directly induces the classical version of the differential attack by the use of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-01-14 Laurent Poinsot

Idempotent Boolean functions form a highly structured subclass of Boolean functions that is closely related to rotation symmetry under a normal-basis representation and to invariance under a fixed linear map in a polynomial basis. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Claude Carlet , Marko Ðurasevic , Domagoj Jakobovic , Luca Mariot , Stjepan Picek

Almost Perfect Nonlinear (APN) functions are very useful in cryptography, when they are used as S-Boxes, because of their good resistance to differential cryptanalysis. An APN function $f:\mathbb{F}_{2^n}\rightarrow\mathbb{F}_{2^n}$ is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-09 Moises Delgado , Heeralal Janwa

Elliptic curve cryptography has received great attention in recent years due to its high resistance against modern cryptanalysis. The aim of this article is to present efficient generators to generate substitution boxes (S-boxes) and pseudo…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Ikram Ullah , Naveed Ahmed Azam , Umar Hayat
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