The weight distribution of a class of linear codes from perfect nonlinear functions

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 712-717

  Yuan, Jin ^a   Carlet, Claude ^b,c   Ding, Cunsheng ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b INRAI Project Codes   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

Author keywords

Difference sets; Linear codes; Perfect nonlinear functions; Planar functions; Weight distribution

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOGRAPHY; LINEAR EQUATIONS; POLYNOMIALS; THEOREM PROVING;

DIFFERENCE SETS; HAMMING WEIGHT; LINEAR CODES; PERFECT NONLINEAR FUNCTIONS; PERMUTATION POLYNOMIAL; PLANAR FUNCTIONS; WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 31744437933     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2005.862125     Document Type: Article

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