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19-07-2019
Unicyclic strong permutations
Published in: Cryptography and Communications | Issue 6/2019
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Abstract
In this paper, we study some properties of a certain kind of permutation σ over \(\mathbb {F}_{2}^{n}\), where n is a positive integer. The desired properties for σ are: (1) the algebraic degree of each component function is n − 1; (2) the permutation is unicyclic; (3) the number of terms of the algebraic normal form of each component is at least 2n− 1. We call permutations that satisfy these three properties simultaneously unicyclic strong permutations. We prove that our permutations σ always have high algebraic degree and that the average number of terms of each component function tends to 2n− 1. We also give a condition on the cycle structure of σ. We observe empirically that for n even, our construction does not provide unicylic permutations. For n odd, n ≤ 11, we conduct an exhaustive search of all σ given our construction for specific examples of unicylic strong permutations. We also present some empirical results on the difference tables and linear approximation tables of σ.