Functions with difference uniformity have important applications in cryptography. Some planar functions and almost perfect nonlinear(APN) functions are presented in the note. In addition, an upper bound of the unifo...Functions with difference uniformity have important applications in cryptography. Some planar functions and almost perfect nonlinear(APN) functions are presented in the note. In addition, an upper bound of the uniformity of some power mappings is provided by using an interesting identity on Dickson polynomials. When the character of the finite field is less than 11, the upper bound is proved to be the best possibility.展开更多
文摘Functions with difference uniformity have important applications in cryptography. Some planar functions and almost perfect nonlinear(APN) functions are presented in the note. In addition, an upper bound of the uniformity of some power mappings is provided by using an interesting identity on Dickson polynomials. When the character of the finite field is less than 11, the upper bound is proved to be the best possibility.