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    Some new results on the self-dual [120,60,24] code

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    The existence of an extremal self-dual binary linear code of length 120 is a long-standing open problem. We continue the investigation of its automorphism group, proving that automorphisms of order 30 and 57 cannot occur. Supposing the involutions acting fixed point freely, we show that also automorphisms of order 8 cannot occur and the automorphism group is of order at most 120, with further restrictions. Finally, we present some necessary conditions for the existence of the code, based on shadow and design theory.Comment: 23 pages, 6 tables, to appear in Finite Fields and Their Application

    Self-Dual Codes

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    Self-dual codes are important because many of the best codes known are of this type and they have a rich mathematical theory. Topics covered in this survey include codes over F_2, F_3, F_4, F_q, Z_4, Z_m, shadow codes, weight enumerators, Gleason-Pierce theorem, invariant theory, Gleason theorems, bounds, mass formulae, enumeration, extremal codes, open problems. There is a comprehensive bibliography.Comment: 136 page

    Additive Asymmetric Quantum Codes

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    We present a general construction of asymmetric quantum codes based on additive codes under the trace Hermitian inner product. Various families of additive codes over \F_{4} are used in the construction of many asymmetric quantum codes over \F_{4}.Comment: Accepted for publication March 2, 2011, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, to appea

    A new class of codes for Boolean masking of cryptographic computations

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    We introduce a new class of rate one-half binary codes: {\bf complementary information set codes.} A binary linear code of length 2n2n and dimension nn is called a complementary information set code (CIS code for short) if it has two disjoint information sets. This class of codes contains self-dual codes as a subclass. It is connected to graph correlation immune Boolean functions of use in the security of hardware implementations of cryptographic primitives. Such codes permit to improve the cost of masking cryptographic algorithms against side channel attacks. In this paper we investigate this new class of codes: we give optimal or best known CIS codes of length <132.<132. We derive general constructions based on cyclic codes and on double circulant codes. We derive a Varshamov-Gilbert bound for long CIS codes, and show that they can all be classified in small lengths ≤12\le 12 by the building up construction. Some nonlinear permutations are constructed by using Z4\Z_4-codes, based on the notion of dual distance of an unrestricted code.Comment: 19 pages. IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, to appea

    Constructing formally self-dual codes from block Ć›-circulant matrices

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    In this work, construction methods for formally self-dual codes are generalized in the form of block lambda-circulant matrices. The constructions are applied over the rings F_2,R1 = F_2 + uF_2 and S = F_2[u]=(u^3-1). Using n-block lambda-circulant matrices for suitable integers n and units lambda, many binary FSD codes (as Gray images) with a higher minimum distance than best known self-dual codes of lengths 34, 40, 44, 54, 58, 70, 72 and 74 were obtained. In particular, ten new even FSD [72, 36, 14] codes were constructed together with eight new near-extremal FSD even codes of length 44 and twentyfive new near-extremal FSD even codes of length 36
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