APN Permutations

Characterization of Permutations

Component Functions

An $(n,n)$-function Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F} is a permutation if and only if all of its components Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F_\lambda} for Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \lambda \in \mathbb{F}_{2^n}^*} are balanced.

Autocorrelation Functions of the Directional Derivatives

The characterization in terms of the component functions given above can be equivalently expressed as

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \sum_{a \in \mathbb{F}_{2^n}^*} \mathcal{F}(D_af_\lambda) = -2^n}

for any Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \lambda \in \mathbb{F}_{2^n}^*} .

Equivalently , Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F} is a permutation if and only if

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \sum_{\lambda \in \mathbb{F}_{2^n}^*} \mathcal{F}(D_af_\lambda) = -2^n}

for any Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \lambda \in \mathbb{F}_{2^n}^*} .

Characterization of APN Permutations

On the component functions

Clearly we have that no component function can be of degree 1. (This result is true for general APN maps)

For n even we have also that no component can be partially-bent. This implies that, in even dimension, no component can be of degree 2.

Autocorrelation Functions of the Directional Derivatives

An Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle (n,n)} -function Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle F} is an APN permutation if and only if

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \sum_{\lambda \in \mathbb{F}_{2^n}^*} \mathcal{F}(D_af_\lambda) = -2^n}

and

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \sum_{\lambda \in \mathbb{F}_{2^n}^*} \mathcal{F}^2(D_af_\lambda) = 2^{2n}}

for any Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle a \in \mathbb{F}_{2^n}^*} .