Semantic Mutation Operator for Fast and Efficient Design of Bent Boolean Functions

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26230%2F24%3APU149919" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26230/24:PU149919 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://rdcu.be/ds8Zc" target="_blank" >https://rdcu.be/ds8Zc</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10710-023-09476-w" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10710-023-09476-w</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Semantic Mutation Operator for Fast and Efficient Design of Bent Boolean Functions

Original language description

Boolean functions are important cryptographic primitives with extensive use in symmetric cryptography. These functions need to possess various properties, such as nonlinearity to be useful. The main limiting factor of the quality of a Boolean function is the number of its input variables, which has to be sufficiently large. The contemporary design methods either scale poorly or are able to create only a small subset of all functions with the desired properties. This necessitates the development of new and more efficient ways of Boolean function design. In this paper, we propose a new semantic mutation operator for the design of bent Boolean functions via genetic programming. The principle of the proposed operator lies in evaluating the function's nonlinearity in detail to purposely avoid mutations that could be disruptive and taking advantage of the fact that the nonlinearity of a Boolean function is invariant under all affine transformations. To assess the efficiency of this operator, we experiment with three distinct variants of genetic programming and compare its performance to three other commonly used non-semantic mutation operators. The detailed experimental evaluation proved that the proposed semantic mutation operator is not only significantly more efficient in terms of evaluations required by genetic programming but also nearly three times faster than the second-best operator when designing bent functions with 12 inputs and almost six times faster for functions with 20 inputs.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA21-13001S" target="_blank" >GA21-13001S: Automated design of hardware accelerators for resource-aware machine learning</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines

ISSN

1389-2576

e-ISSN

1573-7632

Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

32

Pages from-to

1-32

UT code for WoS article

001117604500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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