Multiplicative codes of Reed-Muller type

This is a comprehensive study of multiplicative codes of Reed-Muller type and their applications. Our codes apply to the elds of cryptography and coding theory, especially to multiparty computa- tion and secret sharing schemes. We also study the AB method to analyze the minimum distance of linear codes. The multiplicative codes of Reed-Muller type and the AB method are connected when we study the distance and dual distance of a code and its square. Generator matrices for our codes use a combination of blocks, where a block consists of all columns of a given weight. Several interesting linear codes, which are best known linear codes for a given length and dimension, can be constructed in this way.

On the cryptographic properties of weightwise affine and weightwise quadratic functions

Weightwise degree-d functions are Boolean functions that take the values of a function of degree at most d on each set of fixed Hamming weight. The class of weightwise affine functions encompasses both the symmetric functions and the Hidden Weight Bit Function (HWBF). The good cryptographic properties of the HWBF, except for the nonlinearity, motivates to investigate a larger class with functions that share the good properties and have a better nonlinearity. Additionally, the homomorphic friendliness of symmetric functions exhibited in the context of hybrid homomorphic encryption and the recent results on homomorphic evaluation of Boolean functions make this class of functions appealing for efficient privacy-preserving protocols. In this article we realize the first study on weightwise degree-d functions, focusing on weightwise affine and weightwise quadratic functions. We show some properties on these new classes of functions, in particular on the subclass of cyclic weightwise functions. We provide balanced constructions and prove nonlinearity upper bounds for all cyclic weightwise affine functions and for a family of weightwise quadratic functions. We complement our work with experimental results, they show that other cyclic weightwise linear functions than the HWBF have better cryptographic parameters, and considering weightwise quadratic functions allows to reach higher algebraic immunity and substantially better nonlinearity

On the cryptographic properties of weightwise affine and weightwise quadratic functions

Weightwise degree-d functions are Boolean functions that take the values of a function of degree at most d on each set of fixed Hamming weight. The class of weightwise affine functions encompasses both the symmetric functions and the Hidden Weight Bit Function (HWBF). The good cryptographic properties of the HWBF, except for the nonlinearity, motivates to investigate a larger class with functions that share the good properties and have a better nonlinearity. Additionally, the homomorphic friendliness of symmetric functions exhibited in the context of hybrid homomorphic encryption and the recent results on homomorphic evaluation of Boolean functions make this class of functions appealing for efficient privacy-preserving protocols. In this article we realize the first study on weightwise degree-d functions, focusing on weightwise affine and weightwise quadratic functions. We show some properties on these new classes of functions, in particular on the subclass of cyclic weightwise functions. We provide balanced constructions and prove nonlinearity lower bounds for all cyclic weightwise affine functions and for a family of weightwise quadratic functions. We complement our work with experimental results, they show that other cyclic weightwise linear functions than the HWBF have better cryptographic parameters, and considering weightwise quadratic functions allows to reach higher algebraic immunity and substantially better nonlinearity

Boolean functions with restricted input and their robustness; application to the FLIP cipher

We study the main cryptographic features of Boolean functions (balancedness, nonlinearity, algebraic immunity) when, for a given number n of variables, the input to these functions is restricted to some subset E o

The smallest eigenvalues of Hamming graphs, Johnson graphs and other distance-regular graphs with classical parameters

We prove a conjecture by Van Dam & Sotirov on the smallest eigenvalue of (distance-j) Hamming graphs and a conjecture by Karloff on the smallest eigenvalue of (distance-j) Johnson graphs. More generally, we study the smallest eigenvalue and the second largest eigenvalue in absolute value of the graphs of the relations of classical P- and Q-polynomial association schemes