Based on the relationship between cheating immune secret sharing and cryptographic criteria of Boolean functions, to design a cheating immune secret sharing scheme, a 1-resilient function satisfying the strict avalanche criterion (SAC) is needed. In this paper, a technique on constructing a cheating immune secret sharing function is studied. By using Maiorana-McFarland construction technique, two new methods to construct cheating immune secret sharing functions are proposed.
Tag key encapsulation mechanism (Tag-KEM)/data encapsulation mechanism (DEM) is a hybrid framework proposed in 2005. Tag-t(EM is one of its parts by using public-key encryption (PKE) technique to encapsulate a symmetric key. In hybrid encryptions, the long-raessage PKE is not desired due to its slow operation. A general method is presented for constructing Tag-KEM schemes with short-message PKEs. The chosen ciphertext security is proved in the random oracle model. In the method, the treatment of the tag part brings no additional ciphertext redundancy. Among all the methods for constructing Tag-KEM, the method is the first one without any validity checking on the tag part, thus showing that the Tag-KEM/DEM framework is superior to KEM+DEM one.
The main results in this paper are to construct two classes of plateaued functions with desirable cryptographic properties. By using the Maiorana-McFarland construction, a class of highly nonlinear resilient plateaued functions satisfying the propagation criterion has been obtained. Johansson,s et al' s construction is modified slightly to obtain highly nonlinear multi-output resilient plateaued functions.