Second International Workshop on Boolean Function Cryptography and Applications

Monday March 13th, 2006 (Lundi)

09:00 - 09:30: Registration

09:30 - 10:30: Invited speaker, Antoine Rauzy (IML, France),

On boolean model and risk analysis

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee break

11:00 - 11:45: Baha Guclu, Faruk Gologlu, Ali Doganaksoy, Zulfukar Saygi,

A method of constructing highly nonlinear balanced b.f. [Slides]

11:45 - 12:30: Joel Ratsaby,

Complexity of constrained boolean function classes of VC-dimension

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 14:45: Sumanta Sarkar, Subhamoy Maitra,

Efficient search for symmetric boolean functions under constraints on Walsh spectra values

14:45 - 15:30: Eric Ferard, Francois Rodier,

Nonlinearity of some boolean functions

15:30 - 16:00: Coffee break

16:00 - 16h45: Anna Grocholewska-Czurylo,

Random generation of highly nonlinear resilient boolean functions

Thuesday March 14th, 2006 (Mardi)

09:00 - 10:00: Invited speaker, Serge Grigorieff (LIAFA, France),

On randomness and computer science [Slides]

10:00 - 10:30: Coffe break

10:30 - 11:15: Selcuk Kavut, Subhamoy Maitra, Melek D. Yucel,

Autocorrelation spectra of balanced b.f. on odd number input variables... [Slides]

11:15 - 12:00: Nils Gregor Leander,

Another class of non-normal bent functions

12:00 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 14:45: Ali Doganaksoy, Serhat Sagdicoglu, Zulfukar Saygi, Muhiddin Uguz,

A note on linearity and homomorphicity

14:45 - 15:30: Deepak Kumar Dalai, Kishan Chand Gupta, Subhamoy Maitra,

Notion of algebraic immunity and its evaluation related to fast algebraic attacks

15:30 - 16:00: Coffee break

16:00 - 16:45: P. Langevin, P. Rabizzoni, P. Veron, J.-P. Zanotti,

On the number of bent functions with 8 variables [Slides]

Wenesday March 15th, 2006 (Mercredi)

09:00 - 09:45: Deepak Kumar Dalai, Subhamoy Maitra, Sumanta Sarkar,

Results on rotation symmetric Bent functions

09:45 - 10:30: Miguel Couceiro, Maurice Pouzet,

On a quasi-ordering on boolean functions

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee break

11:00 - 11:45: Faruk Gologlu, Melek D. Yucel,

Necessary conditions on balanced boolean functions with maximum nonlinearity [Slides]

11:45 - 12:30: Olga Masnyk Hansen, Jean-Francis Michon,

Boolean Grobner basis