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We compute the Walsh spectrum and hence the nonlinearity of a new family of quadratic multi-term APN functions. We show that the distribution of values in the Walsh spectrum of these functions is the same as the Gold function.
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Bracken, C., Byrne, E., Markin, N., McGuire, G. (2007). Determining the Nonlinearity of a New Family of APN Functions. In: Boztaş, S., Lu, HF.(. (eds) Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes. AAECC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4851. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77224-8_11
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