Bent Functions: Results and Applications to Cryptography - Softcover

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Dr. Natalia Tokareva is a senior researcher at the Laboratory of Discrete Analysis in the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics and she teaches courses in cryptology in the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics at Novosibirsk State University. She has studied bent functions and their applications for several years, publishing one monograph (in Russian) and more than 12 articles. She has been a participant of many international conferences and seminars and presentations in the area of bent functions, particularly with applications in cryptography. Her research interests include Boolean functions in cryptography, bent functions, block and stream ciphers, cryptanalysis, coding theory, combinatorics, and algebra. She is chief of the seminar "Cryptography and Cryptanalysis" at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics and she supervises BS, MS, and PhD students in discrete mathematics and cryptology.