In cryptography, the bricklayer function is a part of a round function that can be decomposed into identical independent Boolean operations on the partitioned pieces of its input data, so called bundles. The term was introduced by Daemen and Rijmen in 2001.
If the underlying function transforming the bundle is nonlinear, it is traditionally called an S-box. If the function is linear, Daemen and Rijmen use for it the term D-box (after diffusion).
Sources
- Daemen, Joan; Rijmen, Vincent (9 March 2013). "Bricklayer Functions". The Design of Rijndael: AES - The Advanced Encryption Standard (PDF). Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 22–23. ISBN 978-3-662-04722-4. OCLC 1259405449.
- Weinmann, Ralf-Philipp (2009). Algebraic Methods in Block Cipher Cryptanalysis (PDF) (PhD). Technischen Universität Darmstadt.
References
Daemen & Rijmen 2013, p. 22. - Daemen, Joan; Rijmen, Vincent (9 March 2013). "Bricklayer Functions". The Design of Rijndael: AES - The Advanced Encryption Standard (PDF). Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 22–23. ISBN 978-3-662-04722-4. OCLC 1259405449. https://cs.ru.nl/~joan/papers/JDA_VRI_Rijndael_2002.pdf ↩
Daemen & Rijmen 2013, p. 20. - Daemen, Joan; Rijmen, Vincent (9 March 2013). "Bricklayer Functions". The Design of Rijndael: AES - The Advanced Encryption Standard (PDF). Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 22–23. ISBN 978-3-662-04722-4. OCLC 1259405449. https://cs.ru.nl/~joan/papers/JDA_VRI_Rijndael_2002.pdf ↩
Weinmann 2009, p. 36. - Weinmann, Ralf-Philipp (2009). Algebraic Methods in Block Cipher Cryptanalysis (PDF) (PhD). Technischen Universität Darmstadt. https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/1362/1/rpwphd.pdf ↩
Daemen & Rijmen 2013, p. 22. - Daemen, Joan; Rijmen, Vincent (9 March 2013). "Bricklayer Functions". The Design of Rijndael: AES - The Advanced Encryption Standard (PDF). Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 22–23. ISBN 978-3-662-04722-4. OCLC 1259405449. https://cs.ru.nl/~joan/papers/JDA_VRI_Rijndael_2002.pdf ↩