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Problems, solutions and experience of the first international student’s olympiad in cryptography. (English) Zbl 07310308
Summary: A detailed overview of the problems, solutions and experience of the first international student’s Olympiad in cryptography, NSUCRYPTO’2014, is given. We start with the rules of participation and the description of rounds. All 15 mathematical problems of the Olympiad and their solutions are considered in detail. The problems are about differential characteristics of S-boxes, S-box masking, relations between cyclic rotation and additions modulo 2 and $$2^n$$, special linear subspaces in $$\mathbb{F}_2^n$$, the number of solutions of the equation $$F(x)+F(x+a)=b$$ over the finite field $$\mathbb{F}_{2^n}$$ and APN functions. Some unsolved problems in symmetric cryptography are also considered.
##### MSC:
 94-XX Information and communication theory, circuits 35-XX Partial differential equations
##### Keywords:
cryptography; block ciphers; Boolean functions; AES; olympiad; NSUCRYPTO
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