A new hybrid method combining search and direct based construction ideas to generate all 4 x 4 involutory maximum distance separable (MDS) matrices over binary field extensions


Tuncay G., Sakalli F. B., KURT PEHLİVANOĞLU M., Yilmazguc G. G., Akleylek S., SAKALLI M. T.

PEERJ COMPUTER SCIENCE, cilt.9, 2023 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 9
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.7717/peerj-cs.1577
  • Dergi Adı: PEERJ COMPUTER SCIENCE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Compendex, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Kocaeli Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This article presents a new hybrid method (combining search based methods and direct construction methods) to generate all 4 x 4 involutory maximum distance separable (MDS) matrices over F2m. The proposed method reduces the search space complexity at the level of root n, where n represents the number of all 4 x 4 invertible matrices over F-2m to be searched for. Hence, this enables us to generate all 4 x 4 involutory MDS matrices over F(2)3 and F(2)4. After applying global optimization technique that supports higher Exclusive-OR (XOR) gates (e.g., XOR3, XOR4) to the generated matrices, to the best of our knowledge, we generate the lightest involutory/ non-involutory MDS matrices known over F(2)3, F(2)4 and F(2)8 in terms of XOR count. In this context, we present new 4 x 4 involutory MDS matrices over F(2)3, F(2)4 and F(2)8, which can be implemented by 13 XOR operations with depth 5, 25 XOR operations with depth 5 and 42 XOR operations with depth 4, respectively. Finally, we denote a new property of Hadamard matrix, i.e., (involutory and MDS) Hadamard matrix form is, in fact, a representative matrix form that can be used to generate a small subset of all 2(k) x 2(k) involutory MDS matrices, where k > 1. For k = 1, Hadamard matrix form can be used to generate all involutory MDS matrices.