Program for
International Conference on
Boolean Functions:
Cryptography and Applications (BFCA)
 
Date: May 19 - 21, 2008, in Copenhagen, Denmark
Monday, May 19
Event
10h00 - 10h30 Registration/Welcome
10h30 - 10h45 Welcome from IBM
Allan Andersen
IBM at-a-glance
10h45 - 11h00 Coffee break
11h00 - 12h00 Hanne Sondergaard, IBM Crypto Competence Center, Copenhagen
User-friendly practical Crypto solutions
12h00 - 13h00 Lunch
13h00 - 13h45 L. Budaghyan, C. Carlet, G. Leander
On inequivalence between known power apn functions
13h45 - 14h30 M. Mouffron
Balanced alternating and symmetric functions over finite sets
14h30 - 15h15 F. Rodier
Bounds on the degrees of apn polynomials
15h15 - 15h45 Coffee break
15h45 - 16h30 C. Carlet, L.E. Danielsen, M.G. Parker, P. Solé
Self dual bent function
16h30 - 17h15 J. Pieprzyk, H. Wang, X.-M. Zhang (talk by C. Charnes)
Möbius-α commutative functions and partially coincident functions
 
Tuesday, May 20
10h00 - 11h00 Michael Wolf (Niels Bohr Institute)
Quantum Information Theory - a survey
11h00-11h15 Coffee break
11h15 - 12h00 Q.-C Le, P. Bellot
How to use the quantum xor gate as a relay to extend the qkd range?
12h00 - 13h00 Lunch
13h00 - 13h45 B.-S. Choi, J. Bae, Y. Kwon
Quantum mechanical m-resiliency checking of a boolea function: invasion of the complexity from computation to measurement
13h45 - 14h30 P. Lacharme, B. Martin, P. Solé
Pseudo-random sequences, boolean functions and cellular automata
14h30 - 15h15 S. Kavut, M. Yucel
Random Permutations on Input Vectors of Boolean Functions
15h15 - 15h45 Coffee break
15h45 - 16h30 C. Karanikas, N.D. Atreas
On a very large class of non-linear coding method based on boolean invertible matrices
19h00 - 'til the end Banquet
 
Wednesday, May 21
9h30 - 10h15 S. Maitra, S. Kavut, M. Yucel
Balanced Boolean Function on 13-variables having Nonlinearity greater than the Bent Concatenation Bound
10h15 - 10h30 Coffee break
10h30 - 11h15 N. Tokareva
k-bent functions and quadratic cryptanalysis of block ciphers
11h15 - 12h00 C. McDonald, C. Charnes, J. Pieprzyk
an algebraic analysis of Trivium ciphers based on the boolean satisfiability problem
12h00 - 13h00 Lunch
13h00 - 13h45 M. Hermelin, K. Nyberg
Multidimensional linear distinguishing attacks and boolean functions
13h45 - 14h30 G. Millérioux, P. Guillot, J.M. Amigo, J. Daafouz
Flat dynamical systems and self-synchronizing stream ciphers
14h30 - 14h45 Coffee break
14h45 - 15h30 C. Bracken, G. Leander
New families of functions with differential uniformity of 4*