Designs, Codes and Cryptography

Editor’s note

On Bonisoli’s theorem and the block codes of Steiner triple systems

Dieter Jungnickel, Vladimir D. Tonchev

-double cyclic codes

Joaquim Borges, Cristina Fernández-Córdoba, Roger Ten-Valls

Strengthening the security of authenticated key exchange against bad randomness

Michèle Feltz, Cas Cremers

Tightly CCA-secure identity-based encryption with ciphertext pseudorandomness

Shuai Han, Shengli Liu, Baodong Qin, Dawu Gu

Few associative triples, isotopisms and groups

Aleš Drápal, Viliam Valent

Partial permutation decoding for binary linear and -linear Hadamard codes

Roland D. Barrolleta, Mercè Villanueva

Extension sets, affine designs, and Hamada’s conjecture

Dieter Jungnickel, Yue Zhou, Vladimir D. Tonchev

A family of semifields in odd characteristic

Jürgen Bierbrauer, Daniele Bartoli, Giorgio Faina, Stefano Marcugini, Fernanda Pambianco

Connecting tweakable and multi-key blockcipher security

Jooyoung Lee, Atul Luykx, Bart Mennink, Kazuhiko Minematsu

Improved, black-box, non-malleable encryption from semantic security

Seung Geol Choi, Dana Dachman-Soled, Tal Malkin, Hoeteck Wee

CCZ equivalence of power functions

Ulrich Dempwolff

New families of balanced symmetric functions and a generalization of Cusick, Li and Stǎnicǎ’s conjecture

Rafael A. Arce-Nazario, Francis N. Castro, Oscar E. González, Luis A. Medina, Ivelisse M. Rubio

Infinite families of 3-designs from a type of five-weight code

Cunsheng Ding