Weight divisibility of cyclic codes, highly nonlinear functions on F2m, and crosscorrelation of maximum-length sequences

SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 105-138

  Canteaut, Anne ^a   Charpin, Pascale ^a   Dobbertin, Hans ^b  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b Federal Office for Information Security   (Germany)

Author keywords

Almost bent functions; Boolean functions; Crosscorrelation; Cyclic codes; m sequences; Nonlinearity; Weight divisibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000827003     PISSN: 08954801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0895480198350057     Document Type: Article

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