New bound of algebraic immunity of a class of Boolean function

Abstract

Algebraic immunity quantified the resistance of a Boolean function to the algebraic attack.Recently,Mesnager,et al showed that there were direct linked between the annihilators used in algebraic attacks and the coding theory.They showed that the lower bound of the algebraic immunity of Boolean functions could been derived from the minimum distance of the associated cyclic codes.An open problem proposed by Mesnager is settled with a detailed proof.Also,a lower bound of algebraic immunity of a class of Boolean functions will be introduced.

Keywords

• cryptography
• Boolean functions
• annihilators
• algebraic immunity
• cyclic code
• minimum distance