Cryptographic Boolean Functions and Applications

Boolean functions are the building blocks of symmetric cryptographic systems. This book shows how Boolean functions are used in cryptography. It helps in the successful design or implementation of cryptographic algorithms or protocols using Boolean functions.

Autorentext
Thomas Cusick has 25 years of experience in cryptography, 60 published papers in that subject and 8 Ph. D. students whose thesis work was in that area. He is currently located at the State University of New York in Buffalo, New York. Pantelimon Stanica has more than 15 years of experience in the area of cryptography and Boolean functions, more than 35 papers in this subject and 3 Ph.D. students working in the area. He is currently located at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Inhalt
PrefaceA Bit of HistoryFourier Analysis of Boolean FunctionsBasic Definitions on Boolean FunctionsAvalanche and Propagation CriteriaCorrelation Immunity and ResiliencyBent Boolean FunctionsStream Cipher DesignBlock CiphersBoolean Cayley GraphsBibliographyIndex