Boolean functions are essential to systems for secure and reliable communication. This
comprehensive survey of Boolean functions for cryptography and coding covers the whole …

Cryptography is commonly used to secure communication and data transmission over
insecure networks through the use of cryptosystems. A cryptosystem is a set of cryptographic …

A symmetric block cipher employing a substitution–permutation duo is an effective technique
for the provision of information security. For substitution, modern block ciphers use one or …

Abstract The Internet of Things is a resource-constrained device that demands lightweight
cryptographic solutions to achieve high performance and optimal security. In lightweight …

Cryptography is one of the techniques to secure communication and data transfer over the
network. It performs well on resource-rich devices (PC, servers, smartphones, etc.) …

Cellular Automata (CA) represent an interesting approach to design Substitution Boxes (S-
boxes) having good cryptographic properties and low implementation costs. From the …

In this paper, we present a matrix approach based on the rule 90 cellular automata, and a
fractional linear transformation over Galois field GF (2^ 8) GF (2 8), to implement a strong …

The property of nonlinearity has high importance for the design of strong substitution boxes.
Therefore, the development of new techniques to produce substitution boxes with high …

Cryptographic S-boxes are vectorial Boolean functions that must fulfill strict criteria to
provide security for cryptographic algorithms. There are several existing methods for …

Cryptography deals with designing practical mathematical algorithms having the two
primitive elements of confusion and diffusion. The security of encrypted data is highly …