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Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
G. Eric Moorhouse Bruck nets, codes, and characters of
loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--29
A. Tietäväinen Covering radius and dual distance . . . 31--46
B. A. LaMacchia and
A. M. Odlyzko Computation of discrete logarithms in
prime fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--62
E. R. Lamken and
W. H. Mills and
R. M. Wilson Four pairwise balanced designs . . . . . 63--68
Chat Yin Ho Some remarks on orders of projective
planes, planar difference sets and
multipliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--75
Juriaan Simonis and
Cornelis de Vroedt A simple proof of the Delsarte
inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--82
K. T. Arasu and
Alexander Pott On quasiregular collineation groups of
projective planes . . . . . . . . . . . 83--92
Klaus Metsch Improvement of Bruck's completion
theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--116
James A. Davis A note on products of relative
difference sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
Helmut Siemon Cyclic Steiner quadruple systems and
Köhler's orbit graphs . . . . . . . . . . 121--132
David J. Peterson Fractal properties of the singular
function $s(u)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--139
Jürgen Bierbrauer and
Tran Van Trung Halving ${\rm PGL}(2,2^f), f$ odd: a
series of cryptocodes . . . . . . . . . 141--148
B. A. Anderson and
P. A. Leonard A class of self-orthogonal
$2$-sequencings . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--181
Douglas A. Leonard Linear cyclic codes of wordlength $v$
over ${\rm GF}(q^s)$ which are also
linear cyclic codes of wordlength $sv$
over ${\rm GF}(q)$ . . . . . . . . . . . 183--189
A. A. Bruen and
J. C. Fisher The Jamison method in Galois geometries 199--205
Oliver Pfaff The classification of doubly transitive
affine designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--217
Dirk Hachenberger Constructions of large translation nets
with nonabelian translation groups . . . 219--236
Anne Delandtsheer Dimensional linear spaces whose
automorphism group is (line,
hyperplane)-flag transitive . . . . . . 237--245
D. Jungnickel and
Vladimir D. Tonchev Exponential number of quasi-symmetric
SDP designs and codes meeting the
Grey-Rankin bound . . . . . . . . . . . 247--253
J. D. Key Hermitian varieties as codewords . . . . 255--259
E. W. Lambeck A remark on the intersection arrays of
distance regular graphs and the distance
regular graphs of diameter $d=3i-1$ with
$b_i=1$ and $k>2$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--266
Antonio Pasini Diagram geometries for sharply
$n$-transitive sets of permutations or
of mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--297
H. Van Maldeghem and
J. A. Thas and
S. E. Payne Desarguesian finite generalized
quadrangles are classical or dual
classical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--305
Jürgen Bierbrauer and
Tran Van Trung Some highly symmetric authentication
perpendicular arrays . . . . . . . . . . 307--319
S. L. Ma McFarland's conjecture on abelian
difference sets with multiplier $-1$ . . 321--332
Ka Hin Leung and
Siu Lun Ma and
Yan Loi Wong Difference sets in dihedral groups . . . 333--338
Tomik Yaghoobian and
Ian F. Blake Hermitian codes as generalized
Reed-Solomon codes . . . . . . . . . . . 5--17
Jonathan Jedwab Generalized perfect arrays and Menon
difference sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--68
Bhaskar Bagchi On quasi-symmetric designs . . . . . . . 69--79
P. P. Greenough and
R. Hill Optimal ternary quasi-cyclic codes . . . 81--91
Jonathan Jedwab and
Sheelagh Lloyd A note on the nonexistence of Barker
sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--97
Whitfield Diffie and
Paul C. van Oorschot and
Michael J. Wiener Authentication and authenticated key
exchanges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--125
Edward Spence A complete classification of symmetric
$(31,10,3)$ designs . . . . . . . . . . 127--136
R. Hill and
D. E. Newton Optimal ternary linear codes . . . . . . 137--157
Darryn E. Bryant Varieties of quasigroups arising from
$2$-perfect $m$-cycle systems . . . . . 159--168
Stephen D. Cohen The explicit construction of irreducible
polynomials over finite fields . . . . . 169--174
D. R. Stinson Combinatorial characterizations of
authentication codes . . . . . . . . . . 175--187
A. Blokhuis and
A. R. Calderbank Quasi-symmetric designs and the Smith
normal form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--206
Xiang Dong Hou Some inequalities about the covering
radius of Reed--Muller codes . . . . . . 215--224
Noboru Hamada and
Tor Helleseth and
Òyvind Ytrehus On the construction of
$[q^4+q^2-q,5,q^4-q^3+q^2-2q;q]$-codes
meeting the Griesmer bound . . . . . . . 225--229
Michael R. Fellows and
Neal Koblitz Self-witnessing polynomial-time
complexity and prime factorization . . . 231--235
Charles J. Colbourn and
Eric Mendelsohn and
Cheryl E. Praeger and
Vladimir D. Tonchev Concerning multiplier automorphisms of
cyclic Steiner triple systems . . . . . 237--251
Ronald Shaw A characterization of the primals in
${\rm PG}(m,2)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--256
K. T. Arasu and
Qing Xiang On the existence of periodic
complementary binary sequences . . . . . 257--262
Alexander Pott On abelian difference set codes . . . . 263--271
Peter Landrock and
Olaf Manz Classical codes as ideals in group
algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--285
Thomas Beth and
Volker Hatz Design machines: algebraically well
described interconnection networks . . . 287--298
Nicola Melone and
Udo Ott On the rank of truncated incidence
matrices of linear spaces . . . . . . . 307--313
Shuhong Gao and
Hendrik W. Lenstra, Jr. Optimal normal bases . . . . . . . . . . 315--323
W.-A. Jackson and
P. R. Wild Relations between two perfect ternary
sequence constructions . . . . . . . . . 325--332
Zhe Xian Wan Construction of Cartesian authentication
codes from unitary geometry . . . . . . 333--356
D. R. Stinson An explication of secret sharing schemes 357--390
D. de Caen and
C. D. Godsil and
G. F. Royle On the $p$-rank of incidence matrices
and a bound of Bruen and Ott . . . . . . 391--394
Bernhard Schmidt Note on a question by S. Bagchi and B.
Bagchi: ``Designs from pairs of finite
fields. I. A cyclic unital $U(6)$ and
other regular Steiner $2$-designs'' [J.
Combin. Theory Ser. A 52 (1989), no. 1,
51--61; MR 90k:05025] . . . . . . . . . 395--395
Donovan R. Hare and
William McCuaig The connectivity of the
block-intersection graphs of designs . . 5--8
W. D. Wallis and
J. L. Yucas and
G.-H. Zhang Single change covering designs . . . . . 9--19
Charles Laywine Subsquares in orthogonal Latin squares
as subspaces in affine geometries: a
generalization of an equivalence of Bose 21--28
Levon H. Khachatrian The lower bound of the quadratic spans
of de Bruijn sequences . . . . . . . . . 29--32
E. R. Lamken Existence results for generalized
balanced tournament designs with block
size $3$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--61
Chris M. Skinner Nonsymmetric $2$-designs modulo $2$ . . 63--68
Peter Boyvalenkov Nonexistence of certain symmetric
spherical codes . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--74
W. de Launey and
K. J. Horadam A weak difference set construction for
higher-dimensional designs . . . . . . . 75--87
A. E. Brouwer and
L. M. G. M. Tolhuizen A sharpening of the Johnson bound for
binary linear codes and the nonexistence
of linear codes with Preparata
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--98
V. C. Mavron and
W. D. Wallis Cubic arcs in cubic nets . . . . . . . . 99--104
Alexander Barg Incomplete sums, dc-constrained codes,
and codes that maintain synchronization 105--116
J. D. Key and
F. E. Sullivan Codes of Steiner triple and quadruple
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--125
Albrecht Beutelspacher and
Ferenc Wettl On $2$-level secret sharing . . . . . . 127--134
Claude Carlet Partially-bent functions . . . . . . . . 135--145
W. K. Chan Necessary conditions for Menon
difference sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--154
S. S. Sane and
M. S. Shrikhande Some characterizations of
quasi-symmetric designs with a spread 155--166
Xiang Dong Hou Further results on the covering radii of
the Reed--Muller codes . . . . . . . . . 167--177
Aart Blokhuis and
Klaus Metsch On the size of a maximal partial spread 187--191
Edwin R. van Dam Classification of spreads of ${\rm
PG}(3,4)\sbs{\rm PG}(3,2)$ . . . . . . . 193--198
Thomas Beth The ${\rm GF}(p)$-dimension of the codes
generated by the classical point-line
geometries over ${\rm GF}(p)$ . . . . . 199--207
Charles J. Colbourn and
Alexander Rosa and
\vStefan Znám The spectrum of maximal partial Steiner
triple systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--219
Josep Rif\`a-Coma How to avoid the cheaters succeeding in
the key sharing scheme . . . . . . . . . 221--228
Christine M. O'Keefe and
Alan Rahilly Spreads and group divisible designs . . 229--235
Claude Carlet The automorphism groups of the
Delsarte-Goethals codes . . . . . . . . 237--249
Heikki O. Hämäläinen and
Iiro S. Honkala and
Markku K. Kaikkonen and
Simon N. Litsyn Bounds for binary multiple covering
codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--275
Sara Bitan and
Tuvi Etzion The last packing number of quadruples,
and cyclic SQS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--313
Steven Dougherty Nets and their codes . . . . . . . . . . 315--331
Willi Geiselmann and
Dieter Gollmann Self-dual bases in ${\bf F}_{q^n}$ . . . 333--345
A. Klapper Cross-correlations of geometric
sequences in characteristic two . . . . 347--377
James A. Davis and
Jonathan Jedwab A note on new semi-regular divisible
difference sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--381
Luc Teirlinck Some new $2$-resolvable Steiner
quadruple systems . . . . . . . . . . . 5--10
Chris J. Mitchell and
Kenneth G. Paterson Decoding perfect maps . . . . . . . . . 11--30
J. H. Conway and
N. J. A. Sloane Quaternary constructions for the binary
single-error-correcting codes of Julin,
Best and others . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--42
George T. Kennedy and
Vera Pless On designs and formally self-dual codes 43--55
Stefan M. Dodunekov and
Silvia B. Encheva and
Stoyan N. Kapralov On the $[28, 7, 12]$ binary
self-complementary codes and their
residuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--67
Thomas Johansson A shift register construction of
unconditionally secure authentication
codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--81
Wen-Ai Jackson and
Keith M. Martin Geometric secret sharing schemes and
their duals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--95
U. Dempwolff Translation planes of order $27$ . . . . 105--121
Steven T. Dougherty A coding-theoretic solution to the $36$
officer problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--128
Dirk Hachenberger On completely free elements in finite
fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--143
Roberta Evans Sabin On row-cyclic codes with algebraic
structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--155
Attila Sali On the rigidity of spherical $t$-designs
that are orbits of finite reflection
groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--170
Gérald E. Séguin A counter-example to a recent result on
the $q$-ary image of a $q^s$-ary cyclic
code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--175
Kathleen A. S. Quinn Some constructions for key distribution
patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--191
Alfred Menezes Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
A. R. Calderbank and
P. C. Fishburn Maximal three-independent subsets of
$\{0,1,2\}^n$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--211
Olof Heden A binary perfect code of length $15$ and
codimension $0$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--220
S. L. Ma A survey of partial difference sets . . 221--261
M. J. B. Robshaw On evaluating the linear complexity of a
sequence of least period $2^n$ . . . . . 263--269
M. van Eupen and
R. Hill An optimal ternary $[69,5,45]$ code and
related codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--282
Zhe Xian Wan The weight hierarchies of the projective
codes from nondegenerate quadrics . . . 283--300
R. D. Baker and
G. L. Ebert A Bruen chain for $q=19$ . . . . . . . . 307--312
Yu Qing Chen and
Qing Xiang and
Surinder K. Sehgal An exponent bound on skew Hadamard
abelian difference sets . . . . . . . . 313--317
Dieter Jungnickel and
Alexander Pott A new class of symmetric
$(v,k,\lambda)$-designs . . . . . . . . 319--325
C. Koukouvinos and
S. Kounias and
J. Seberry and
C. H. Yang and
J. Yang On sequences with zero autocorrelation 327--340
Chris J. Mitchell Constructing $c$-ary perfect factors . . 341--368
D. R. Stinson Universal hashing and authentication
codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369--380
Gilles Zémor Hash functions and Cayley graphs . . . . 381--394
K. T. Arasu and
Surinder K. Sehgal Difference Sets in Abelian Groups of
$p$-Rank Two . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--12
Marco Buratti A Powerful Method for Constructing
Difference Families and Optimal Optical
Orthogonal Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--25
M. J. Coster and
W. H. Haemers Quasi-Symmetric Designs Related to the
Triangular Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--42
Clement Lam and
Larry Thiel and
Vladimir D. Tonchev On quasi-symmetric $2$-$(28,12,11)$ and
$2$-$(36,16,12)$ designs . . . . . . . . 43--55
Rudolf Mathon and
Gordon F. Royle The Translation Planes of Order $49$ . . 57--72
David Naccache and
David M?Ra\"\ihi and
Dan Raphaeli Can Montgomery Parasites Be Avoided? A
Design Methodology Based on Key and
Cryptosystem Modifications . . . . . . . 73--80
U. Dempwolff Correction to: ``Translation planes of
order $27$'' [Des. Codes Cryptogr. 4
(1994), no. 2, 105--121; MR 95a:51012] 81--81
Ahmed M. Assaf On Covering Designs with Block Size $5$
and Index $5$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--107
David Gillman and
Ronald L. Rivest Complete Variable-Length ``Fix-Free''
Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--114
Kenneth G. Paterson Perfect Factors in the de Bruijn Graph 115--138
René Peeters On the $p$-Ranks of Net Graphs . . . . . 139--153
Stephan J. Suchower Nonisomorphic Complete Sets of
$F$-Rectangles with Prime Power
Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--174
Marco Carpentieri A Perfect Threshold Secret Sharing
Scheme to Identify Cheaters . . . . . . 183--187
Charles J. Colbourn and
Jeffrey H. Dinitz and
Mieczys\law Wojtas Thwarts in Transversal Designs . . . . . 189--197
R. Craigen The Structure of Weighing Matrices
having Large Weights . . . . . . . . . . 199--216
Tuvi Etzion and
Victor Wei and
Zhen Zhang Bounds on the Sizes of Constant Weight
Covering Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--239
K. Gopalakrishnan and
D. R. Stinson Three Characterizations of Non-binary
Correlation-Immune and Resilient
Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--251
Akihiro Munemasa On Perfect $t$-Shift Codes in Abelian
Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--259
Christine M. O'Keefe Key Distribution Patterns using
Minkowski Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--267
Tran Van Trung On the Construction of Authentication
and Secrecy Codes . . . . . . . . . . . 269--280
J. D. Key and
F. E. Sullivan Erratum: ``Codes of Steiner triple and
quadruple systems'' [Des. Codes
Cryptogr. \bf 3 (1993), no. 2, 117--125;
MR 94e:05050] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--281
Patrick A. H. Bours On the Construction of Perfect
Deletion-Correcting Codes using Design
Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--20
A. R. Calderbank and
N. J. A. Sloane Modular and $p$-adic Cyclic Codes . . . 21--35
J. K. Gibson Severely Denting the Gabidulin Version
of the McEliece Public Key Cryptosystem 37--45
Glenn Hurlbert and
Garth Isaak New Constructions for de Bruijn Tori . . 47--56
S. L. Ma and
Bernhard Schmidt On $(p^a,p,p^a,p^{a-1})$-relative
difference sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--71
W. J. Martin and
X. J. Zhu Anticodes for the Grassman and bilinear
forms graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--79
Masaaki Harada and
Hiroshi Kimura New Extremal Doubly-Even $[64, 32, 12]$
Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--96
W. Cary Huffman and
Vladimir D. Tonchev The existence of extremal self-dual
$[50,25,10]$ codes and quasi-symmetric
$2$-$(49,9,6)$ designs . . . . . . . . . 97--106
Helmut Meyn Explicit $N$-Polynomials of $2$-Power
Degree over Finite Fields, I . . . . . . 107--116
Renate Scheidler and
Hugh C. Williams A Public-Key Cryptosystem Utilizing
Cyclotomic Fields . . . . . . . . . . . 117--131
N. Shalaby and
J. Yin Directed packings with block size $5$
and even $\nu$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--142
Marten Van Dijk On the Information Rate of Perfect
Secret Sharing Schemes . . . . . . . . . 143--169
P. Dey and
J. L. Hayden On Symmetric Incidence Matrices of
Projective Planes . . . . . . . . . . . 179--188
D. G. Glynn and
J. W. P. Hirschfeld On the Classification of Geometric Codes
by Polynomial Functions . . . . . . . . 189--204
Thomas Johansson Authentication Codes for Nontrusting
Parties Obtained from Rank Metric Codes 205--218
Yaron Klein and
Simon Litsyn and
Alexander Vardy Two New Bounds on the Size of Binary
Codes with a Minimum Distance of Three 219--227
Tim Penttila and
Gordon F. Royle Sets of Type $(m, n)$ in the Affine and
Projective Planes of Order Nine . . . . 229--245
Kevin T. Phelps and
Mike Levan Kernels of Nonlinear Hamming Codes . . . 247--257
Anonymous Foreword to this issue . . . . . . . . . 7--8
Whitfield Diffie The National Security Establishment and
the Development of Public-Key
Cryptography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--12
Mary Fischer ``And Now For Something Completely
Different'' (The Egyptologist and the
Cryptographer: A Personal Reminiscence) 13--15
Thomas Beth Watching the Bhang Meter and Flying
through Dirt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--25
Paul Syverson and
Catherine Meadows A Formal Language for Cryptographic
Protocol Requirements . . . . . . . . . 27--59
Kaisa Nyberg and
Rainer A. Rueppel Message Recovery for Signature Schemes
Based on the Discrete Logarithm Problem 61--81
R. Safavi-Naini and
L. Tombak Authentication Codes in Plaintext and
Chosen-Content Attacks . . . . . . . . . 83--99
C. J. Mitchell and
F. C. Piper and
M. Walker and
P. Wild Authentication Schemes, Perfect Local
Randomizers, Perfect Secrecy and Secret
Sharing Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--110
Xian-Mo Zhang and
Yuliang Zheng Characterizing the Structures of
Cryptographic Functions Satisfying the
Propagation Criterion for Almost All
Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--134
Dieter Gollmann and
Yongfei Han and
Chris J. Mitchell Redundant Integer Representations and
Fast Exponentiation . . . . . . . . . . 135--151
R. Scheidler and
A. Stein and
Hugh C. Williams Key-Exchange in Real Quadratic
Congruence Function Fields . . . . . . . 153--174
J. D. Key and
F. E. Sullivan Correction to: ``Codes of Steiner triple
and quadruple systems'' [Des. Codes
Cryptogr. \bf 3 (1993), no. 2, 117--125;
MR 94e:05050] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--175
Alexey E. Ashikhmin and
Simon N. Litsyn Fast Decoding Algorithms for First Order
Reed--Muller and Related Codes . . . . . 187--214
Thierry P. Berger On the Automorphism Groups of
Affine-Invariant Codes . . . . . . . . . 215--221
T. Aaron Gulliver and
Vijay K. Bhargava New Good Rate $(m-1)/pm$ Ternary and
Quaternary Quasi-Cyclic Codes . . . . . 223--233
Marijn Van Eupen and
Noboru Hamada and
Yoko Watamori The Nonexistence of Ternary $[50,5,32]$
Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--237
Rolf S. Rees and
Douglas R. Stinson Combinatorial characterizations of
authentication codes. II . . . . . . . . 239--259
Dieter Jungnickel and
Günter Pickert A Life's Work in Geometry: An Homage to
Hanfried Lenz . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--22
K. T. Arasu and
Alexander Pott Impossibility of a Certain Cyclotomic
Equation with Applications to Difference
Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--27
Alphonse Baartmans and
Ivan Landjev and
Vladimir D. Tonchev On the Binary Codes of Steiner Triple
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--43
R. A. Bailey Orthogonal Partitions in Designed
Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--77
R. D. Baker and
G. L. Ebert Regulus-free spreads of ${\rm PG}(3, q)$ 79--89
Thomas Beth Designs, Codes and Crypts --- A Puzzle
Altogether . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--101
Darryn E. Bryant and
D. G. Hoffman and
C. A. Rodger $5$-Cycle Systems with Holes . . . . . . 103--108
Peter J. Cameron Stories about Groups and Sequences . . . 109--133
Dirk Hachenberger Groups Admitting a Kantor Family and a
Factorized Normal Subgroup . . . . . . . 135--143
Willem H. Haemers and
Vladimir D. Tonchev Spreads in Strongly Regular Graphs . . . 145--157
Dieter Jungnickel and
Marialuisa J. de Resmini and
Scott A. Vanstone Codes Based on Complete Graphs . . . . . 159--165
Ka Hin Leung and
Siu Lun Ma A construction of partial difference
sets in $Z_{p^2}\times
Z_{p^2}\times\cdots\times Z_{p^2}$ . . . 167--172
Arlene A. Pascasio and
Cheryl E. Praeger and
Blessilda P. Raposa On the characterisation of ${\rm
AG}(n,q)$ by its parameters as a nearly
triply regular design . . . . . . . . . 173--179
S. E. Payne The fundamental theorem of $q$-clan
geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--202
Günter Pickert Extension of Gravity Centers
Configuration to Steiner Triple Systems 203--214
D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri and
Qing Xiang Constructions of Partial Difference Sets
and Relative Difference Sets Using
Galois Rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--227
E. E. Shult and
J. A. Thas $m$-systems and partial $m$-systems of
polar spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--238
Helmut Siemon Piotrowski's Infinite Series of Steiner
Quadruple Systems Revisited . . . . . . 239--254
R. A. Bailey Orthogonal partitions in designed
experiments. Corrected reprint . . . . . 45--77
Peter J. Cameron Stories about groups and sequences.
Corrected reprint of ``Stories about
groups and sequences'' [Des. Codes
Cryptogr. \bf 8 (1996), no. 1--2,
109--133; MR 97f:20004a] . . . . . . . . 109--133
Josep Domingo-Ferrer Achieving Rights Untransferability with
Client-Independent Servers . . . . . . . 263--271
Masaaki Harada Existence of New Extremal Doubly-Even
Codes and Extremal Singly-Even Codes . . 273--283
Xiang-dong Hou The Covering Radius of $R(1,9)$ in
$R(4,9)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--292
Heeralal Janwa and
Oscar Moreno McEliece Public Key Cryptosystems Using
Algebraic-Geometric Codes . . . . . . . 293--307
Ivan N. Landgev Constructions of Group Divisible Designs 309--318
D. B. Meisner New Classes of Groups Containing Menon
Difference Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 319--325
Tamás Szönyi On Cyclic Caps in Projective Spaces . . 327--332
Vladimir Tonchev Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
E. F. Assmus, Jr. and
J. D. Key Designs and codes: An update . . . . . . 7--27
Jürgen Bierbrauer and
Stephen Black and
Yves Edel Some $t$-homogeneous sets of
permutations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--38
Jeffrey T. Bonn Forcing Linearity on Greedy Codes . . . 39--49
Laurel L. Carpenter Oval Designs in Desarguesian Projective
Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--59
Charles J. Colbourn and
Donald L. Kreher Concerning Difference Matrices . . . . . 61--70
Hiroshi Kimura Hadamard Matrices and Dihedral Groups 71--77
Laura Monroe Self-Orthogonal Greedy Codes . . . . . . 79--83
Iosif Pinelis On the Minimal Number of Even
Submatrices of $0$-$1$ Matrices . . . . 85--93
J. A. Thas $k$-arcs, hyperovals, partial flocks and
flocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--104
Tran Van Trung A Generalization of a Theorem of Dehon
for Simple $t$-Designs . . . . . . . . . 105--114
Judy L. Walker A New Approach to the Main Conjecture on
Algebraic-Geometric MDS Codes . . . . . 115--120
Stefka Buyuklieva and
Vassil Yorgov Singly-Even Self-Dual Codes of Length
$40$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--141
Mario A. de Boer Almost MDS Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--155
Chang-Seop Park and
Gui-Liang Feng and
Kenneth K. Tzeng The New Minimum Distance Bounds of Goppa
Codes and Their Decoding . . . . . . . . 157--176
Ron M. Roth Spectral-Null Codes and Null Spaces of
Hadamard Submatrices . . . . . . . . . . 177--191
Alfred Scheerhorn Dickson Polynomials, Completely Normal
Polynomials and the Cyclic Module
Structure of Specific Extensions of
Finite Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--202
M. A. Shokrollahi Stickelberger Codes . . . . . . . . . . 203--213
A. N. Skorobogatov On the Number of Representations of
Matroids Over Finite Fields . . . . . . 215--226
Pier Vittorio Ceccherini Giuseppe Tallini (1930--1995) . . . . . 237--245
Giuseppe Tallini Combinatorial Problems in Infinite
Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--249
S. R. Blackburn A Note on Sequences with the Shift and
Add Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--256
Tor Helleseth and
P. Vijay Kumar and
Abhijit Shanbhag Codes with the Same Weight Distributions
as the Goethals Codes and the
Delsarte-Goethals Codes . . . . . . . . 257--266
Wen-Ai Jackson and
Keith M. Martin Perfect Secret Sharing Schemes on Five
Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--286
Wen-Ai Jackson and
Keith M. Martin and
Christine M. O'Keefe A Construction for Multisecret Threshold
Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--303
Ueli M. Maurer and
Yacov Yacobi A Non-interactive Public-Key
Distribution System . . . . . . . . . . 305--316
Cécile Huybrechts and
Antonio Pasini On $c^{n-2}.c^*$ geometries of order $2$ 317--330
Stephen D. Cohen The Length of Primitive BCH Codes with
Minimal Covering Radius . . . . . . . . 5--16
Jean Conan On the enumeration and generation of
nonweight equivalent rate $\frac 12$
convolutional codes . . . . . . . . . . 17--27
András Gács and
Péter Sziklai and
Tamás Sz\Honyi Two Remarks on Blocking Sets and Nuclei
in Planes of Prime Order . . . . . . . . 29--39
Noboru Hamada A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for
the Existence of Some Ternary $[n, k,
d]$ Codes Meeting the Greismer Bound . . 41--56
Gerhard Hiss On the Incidence Matrix of the Ree
Unital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--62
Marijn van Eupen and
Petr Lison\vek Classification of Some Optimal Ternary
Linear Codes of Small Length . . . . . . 63--84
A. J. van Zanten Lexicographic Order and Linearity . . . 85--97
Dieter Jungnickel Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Arrigo Bonisoli and
Gábor Korchmáros and
Tamás Szönyi Some Multiply Derived Translation Planes
with ${\rm SL}(2,5)$ as an Inherited
Collineation Group in the Translation
Complement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--114
Sabine Bouzette and
Francis Buekenhout and
Edmond Dony and
Alain Gottcheiner A Theory of Nets for Polyhedra and
Polytopes Related to Incidence
Geometries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--136
Claudia Broecker and
Ralph-Hardo Schulz and
Gernot Stroth Check Character Systems Using Chevalley
Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--143
Aiden A. Bruen and
David L. Wehlau Partitioning Quadrics, Symmetric Group
Divisible Designs and Caps . . . . . . . 145--155
A. R. Calderbank and
Gary M. McGuire Construction of a $(64,2^{37},12)$ code
via Galois rings . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--165
Robert S. Coulter and
Rex W. Matthews Planar Functions and Planes of
Lenz-Barlotti Class II . . . . . . . . . 167--184
Wen-Ai Jackson and
Peter R. Wild On GMW Designs and Cyclic Hadamard
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--191
Norman L. Johnson and
Guglielmo Lunardon Maximal Partial Spreads and Flocks . . . 193--202
Alan C. H. Ling and
Xiaojun Zhu and
Charles J. Colbourn and
Ronald C. Mullin Pairwise Balanced Designs with
Consecutive Block Sizes . . . . . . . . 203--222
Siu Lun Ma and
Bernhard Schmidt Difference Sets Corresponding to a Class
of Symmetric Designs . . . . . . . . . . 223--236
Rudolf Mathon and
Tran Van Trung Unitals and Unitary Polarities in
Symmetric Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 237--250
Klaus Metsch Embedding the Linear Structure of Planar
Spaces into Projective Spaces . . . . . 251--263
R. J. R. Abel and
Charles J. Colbourn and
Jianxing Yin and
Hantao Zhang Existence of incomplete transversal
designs with block size five and any
index $\lambda$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--307
Lynn Margaret Batten and
Kris Coolsaet and
Anne Penfold Street Blocking sets in $(v,\{2,4\},1)$-designs 309--314
Margaret Ann Bernard and
Bhu Dev Sharma Linear Codes with Non-Uniform Error
Correction Capability . . . . . . . . . 315--323
Diane Erdmann and
Sean Murphy An Approximate Distribution for the
Maximum Order Complexity . . . . . . . . 325--339
A. Faldum and
W. Willems Codes of Small Defect . . . . . . . . . 341--350
Alice E. D. Houston On the limit of maximal density of
sequences with a Perfect Linear
Complexity Profile . . . . . . . . . . . 351--359
Zhe-Xian Wan State Spaces of Convolutional Codes . . 361--369
Marco Buratti From a $(G, k, 1)$ to a $(Ck \oplus G,
k, 1)$ difference family . . . . . . . . 5--9
Marco Buratti On Resolvable Difference Families . . . 11--23
T. Aaron Gulliver and
Masaaki Harada Classification of Extremal Double
Circulant Formally Self-Dual Even Codes 25--35
E. R. Lamken The Existence of Partitioned Generalized
Balanced Tournament Designs with Block
Size $3$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--71
Siu Lun Ma and
Surinder K. Sehgal A Family of Semi-Regular Divisible
Difference Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--78
Stephanie Perkins Codes with a Disparity Property . . . . 79--97
Carlo Blundo and
Alfredo de Santis and
Roberto de Simone and
Ugo Vaccaro Tight Bounds on the Information Rate of
Secret Sharing Schemes . . . . . . . . . 107--122
Malcolm Greig and
Julian Abel Resolvable Balanced Incomplete Block
Designs with Block Size $8$ . . . . . . 123--140
T. Aaron Gulliver and
Masaaki Harada Weight Enumerators of Double Circulant
Codes and New Extremal Self-Dual Codes 141--150
Patric R. J. Östergård and
Heikki O. Hämäläinen A New Table of Binary/Ternary Mixed
Covering Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--178
Eric R. Verheul and
Henk C. A. van Tilborg Constructions and properties of $k$ out
of $n$ visual secret sharing schemes . . 179--196
Jürgen Bierbrauer Universal Hashing and Geometric Codes 207--221
Simon R. Blackburn A Generalized Rational Interpolation
Problem and the Solution of the
Welch-Berlekamp Key Equation . . . . . . 223--234
C. Blundo and
A. Giorgio Gaggia and
D. R. Stinson On the Dealer's Randomness Required in
Secret Sharing Schemes . . . . . . . . . 235--259
A. E. Brouwer and
M. van Eupen The Correspondence Between Projective
Codes and $2$-weight Codes . . . . . . . 261--266
James A. Davis and
Surinder K. Sehgal Using the Simplex Code to Construct
Relative Difference Sets in $2$-groups 267--277
G. B. Khosrovshahi and
A. Nowzari-Dalini and
R. Torabi Trading Signed Designs and Some New
$4-(12, 5, 4)$ Designs . . . . . . . . . 279--288
A. Klapper Cross-Correlations of Quadratic Form
Sequences in Odd Characteristic . . . . 289--305
Iliya Boukliev Some New Optimal Ternary Linear Codes 5--11
Mike Burmester and
Yvo G. Desmedt and
Fred Piper and
Michael Walker A General Zero-Knowledge Scheme . . . . 13--37
Stefka Buyuklieva On the Binary Self-Dual Codes with an
Automorphism of Order $2$ . . . . . . . 39--48
R. Craigen and
H. Kharaghani Hadamard Matrices from Weighing Matrices
via Signed Groups . . . . . . . . . . . 49--58
F. Franek and
A. Rosa and
T. S. Griggs Large Sets of Mutually Almost Disjoint
Steiner Triple Systems Not From Steiner
Quadruple Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 59--67
J. L. Hayden Generalized Hadamard Matrices . . . . . 69--73
Xiang-Dong Hou The Reed--Muller code $R(1,7)$ is normal 75--82
Tatsuya Maruta On the Achievement of the Griesmer Bound 83--87
L. Storme Normal Rational Curves Over Prime Fields 89--96
Hanno Lefmann and
Pavel Pudlák and
Petr Savick\'y On Sparse Parity Check Matrices . . . . 107--130
Vladimir I. Levenshtein Split Orthogonal Arrays and Maximum
Independent Resilient Systems of
Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--160
Marten van Dijk A Linear Construction of Secret Sharing
Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--201
Evangelos Kranakis and
Paul C. Van Oorschot Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--213
Doug R. Stinson On Some Methods for Unconditionally
Secure Key Distribution and Broadcast
Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--243
N. Rogier and
Pascal Chauvaud ${\rm MD}2$ is not secure without the
checksum byte . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--251
Vincent Rijmen and
Bart Preneel and
Erik De Win On Weaknesses of Non-surjective Round
Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--266
J. Lee and
H. M. Heys and
S. E. Tavares Resistance of a CAST-Like Encryption
Algorithm to Linear and Differential
Cryptanalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267--282
Carlisle M. Adams Constructing Symmetric Ciphers Using the
CAST Design Procedure . . . . . . . . . 283--316
R. Julian R. Abel and
Malcolm Greig Balanced Incomplete Block Designs with
Block Size $7$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--30
E. F. Assmus, Jr. Linearly Derived Steiner Triple Systems 31--49
Aiden Bruen and
Lucien Haddad and
David Wehlau Caps and Colouring Steiner Triple
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--55
Gary McGuire and
Vladimir D. Tonchev and
Harold N. Ward Characterizing the Hermitian and Ree
Unitals on $28$ Points . . . . . . . . . 57--61
Helmut Siemon A number-theoretic conjecture and the
existence of $S$-cyclic Steiner
quadruple systems . . . . . . . . . . . 63--94
Darryn E. Bryant and
A. Khodkar On Orthogonal Double Covers of Graphs 103--105
L. R. A. Casse and
K. M. Martin and
P. R. Wild Bounds and Characterizations of
Authentication/Secrecy Schemes . . . . . 107--129
James A. Davis and
Jonathan Jedwab and
Miranda Mowbray New Families of Semi-Regular Relative
Difference Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--146
J. Fitzgerald and
R. F. Lax Decoding affine variety codes using
Gröbner bases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--158
Kirsten Mackenzie-Fleming A Recursive Construction for $2$-Designs 159--164
Noboru Hamada and
Marijn van Eupen The Nonexistence of Ternary $[38, 6,
23]$ Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--172
T. S. Michael and
W. D. Wallis Skew-Hadamard Matrices and the Smith
Normal Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--176
Ilene H. Morgan Equiorthogonal Frequency Hypercubes:
Preliminary Theory . . . . . . . . . . . 177--185
Pratima Panigrahi The collinearity graph of the $O^-(8,2)$
quadric is not geometrisable . . . . . . 187--198
Corrado Zanella Linear sections of the finite Veronese
varieties and authentication systems
defined using geometry . . . . . . . . . 199--212
Tsonka Stefanova Baicheva The Covering Radius of Ternary Cyclic
Codes with Length up to $25$ . . . . . . 223--227
J. J. Brennan and
Bruce Geist Analysis of iterated modular
exponentiation: the orbits of
$x^\alpha\bmod N$ . . . . . . . . . . . 229--245
Yu Qing Chen A Construction of Difference Sets . . . 247--250
Dragomir \vZ. \Dbarokovi\'c Note on Periodic Complementary Sets of
Binary Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--256
T. Aaron Gulliver and
Masaaki Harada Classification of Extremal Double
Circulant Self-Dual Codes of Lengths
$64$ to $72$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--269
Masaaki Harada New extremal type II codes over $\bold
Z_4$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--284
Ilia Krasikov and
Simon Litsyn Bounds on Spectra of Codes with Known
Dual Distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--297
R. Safavi-Naini Three Systems for Threshold Generation
of Authenticators . . . . . . . . . . . 299--312
A. A. Zain and
B. Sundar Rajan Quasideterminant Characterization of MDS
Group Codes over Abelian Groups . . . . 313--330
F. E. Bennett and
J. Yin and
H. Zhang and
R. J. R. Abel Perfect Mendelsohn Packing Designs with
Block Size Five . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--22
Sergei V. Bezzateev and
Natalia A. Shekhunova A Subclass of Binary Goppa Codes With
Improved Estimation of the Code
Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--38
David B. Jaffe and
Vladimir D. Tonchev Computing Linear Codes and Unitals . . . 39--52
Marc Joye and
Jean-Jacques Quisquater Reducing the Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem
of Meyer-Müller to the Cryptosystem of
Rabin-Williams . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--56
Çetin K. Koç and
Tolga Acar Montgomery multiplication in ${\rm
GF}(2^k)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--69
Tero Laihonen and
Simon Litsyn On Upper Bounds for Minimum Distance and
Covering Radius of Non-binary Codes . . 71--80
A. Mahmoodi Existence of Perfect
$3$-Deletion-Correcting Codes . . . . . 81--87
Antonio Maschietti Difference Sets and Hyperovals . . . . . 89--98
Alexei Ashikhmin On Generalized Hamming Weights for
Galois Ring Linear Codes . . . . . . . . 107--126
Aiden A. Bruen and
Keldon Drudge On the non-existence of certain
Cameron-Liebler line classes in ${\rm
PG}(3, q)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--132
Claude Carlet and
Philippe Guillot An Alternate Characterization of the
Bentness of Binary Functions, with
Uniqueness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--140
Charles J. Colbourn and
Alan C. H. Ling Point Code Minimum Steiner Triple
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--146
Yury J. Ionin A Technique for Constructing Symmetric
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--158
Volker Müller and
Scott Vanstone and
Robert Zuccherato Discrete Logarithm Based Cryptosystems
in Quadratic Function Fields of
Characteristic $2$ . . . . . . . . . . . 159--178
Juriaan Simonis and
Alexei Ashikhmin Almost Affine Codes . . . . . . . . . . 179--197
Amir H. Banihashemi and
Amir K. Khandani An Inequality on the Coding Gain of
Densest Lattice Packings in Successive
Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--212
Harald Fripertinger Enumeration, Construction and Random
Generation of Block Codes . . . . . . . 213--219
Jingmin He and
Ed Dawson Shared Secret Reconstruction . . . . . . 221--237
Philippe Langevin Weights of Abelian Codes . . . . . . . . 239--245
Kenneth G. Paterson Root Counting, the DFT and the Linear
Complexity of Nonlinear Filtering . . . 247--259
Doug R. Stinson and
Tran Van Trung Some New Results on Key Distribution
Patterns and Broadcast Encryption . . . 261--279
Marten van Dijk and
Christian Gehrmann and
Ben Smeets Unconditionally Secure Group
Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--296
Helmut Siemon Erratum: ``A number-theoretic conjecture
and the existence of $S$-cyclic Steiner
quadruple systems'' [Des. Codes
Cryptogr. \bf 13 (1998), no. 1, 63--94;
1 600 695] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--297
Anton Betten and
Adalbert Kerber and
Reinhard Laue and
Alfred Wassermann Simple $8$-Designs with Small Parameters 5--27
Roberto De Prisco and
Alfredo De Santis On Lower Bounds for the Redundancy of
Optimal Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--45
Wende Chen and
Torleiv Klòve Weight Hierarchies of Linear Codes
Satisfying the Chain Condition . . . . . 47--66
Christian Gehrmann Multiround Unconditionally Secure
Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--86
Kaoru Kurosawa and
Koji Okada and
Hajime Saido and
Douglas R. Stinson New Combinatorial Bounds for
Authentication Codes and Key
Predistribution Schemes . . . . . . . . 87--100
Ross Anderson and
Cunsheng Ding and
Tor Helleseth and
Torleiv Klòve How to build robust shared control
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--124
Claude Carlet and
Pascale Charpin and
Victor Zinoviev Codes, bent functions and permutations
suitable for DES-like cryptosystems . . 125--156
Wende Chen and
Zhi Chen and
Torleiv Klòve New constructions of disjoint distinct
difference sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--165
K. Chen and
L. Zhu Existence of $(q,6,1)$ difference
families with $q$ a prime power . . . . 167--173
Tor Helleseth and
P. Vijay Kumar and
Kyeongcheol Yang An infinite family of $3$-designs from
Preparata codes over ${Z}_4$ . . . . . . 175--181
Markku Kaikkonen Codes from affine permutation groups . . 183--186
A. A. I. Perera and
K. J. Horadam Cocyclic generalised Hadamard matrices
and central relative difference sets . . 187--200
Kyeongcheol Yang and
Tor Helleseth Two new infinite families of $3$-designs
from Kerdock codes over ${Z}_4$ . . . . 201--214
K. T. Arasu and
S. L. Ma Abelian Difference Sets Without
Self-conjugacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223--230
Simeon Ball Partial Unitals and Related Structures
in Desarguesian Planes . . . . . . . . . 231--236
M. C. Bhandari and
K. K. P. Chanduka and
A. K. Lal On Lower Bounds For Covering Codes . . . 237--243
Ivan N. Landjev The Nonexistence of Some Optimal Ternary
Codes of Dimension Five . . . . . . . . 245--258
Hiroyuki Ohmori and
Takashi Miyamoto Construction of Weighing Matrices
$(17,9)$ Having the Intersection Number
$8$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--269
Nabil Shalaby and
Jianxing Yin Nested Optimal $\lambda$-Packings and
$\lambda$-Coverings of Pairs with
Triples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--278
Brett Stevens and
Lucia Moura and
Eric Mendelsohn Lower Bounds for Transversal Covers . . 279--299
Marten van Dijk and
Wen-Ai Jackson and
Keith M. Martin A General Decomposition Construction for
Incomplete Secret Sharing Schemes . . . 301--321
M. C. Bhandari and
M. K. Gupta and
A. K. Lal Some Results on NQR Codes . . . . . . . 5--9
Simon Blake-Wilson and
Kevin T. Phelps Constant Weight Codes and Group
Divisible Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 11--27
Alexander A. Davydov and
Patric R. J. Ostergaard New Linear Codes with Covering Radius
$2$ and Odd Basis . . . . . . . . . . . 29--39
Vikram Jha and
Norman Johnson Cyclic Ostrom Spreads . . . . . . . . . 41--51
Kaoru Kurosawa and
Wakaha Ogata Efficient Rabin-type Digital Signature
Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--64
Patric R. J. Ostergård and
William D. Weakley Constructing Covering Codes with Given
Automorphisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--73
Carles Padro and
Germán Sáez and
Jorge Luis Villar Detection of Cheaters in Vector Space
Secret Sharing Schemes . . . . . . . . . 75--85
Keisuke Shiromoto The Weight Enumerator of Linear Codes
over GF$(qm)$ Having Generator Matrix
over GF$(q)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--92
A. Barg and
A. Ashikhmin Binomial Moments of the Distance
Distribution and the Probability of
Undetected Error . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--116
Marco Buratti Some $(17q, 17, 2)$ and $(25q, 25, 3)$
BIBD Constructions . . . . . . . . . . . 117--120
Paul Camion and
Anne Canteaut Correlation-Immune and Resilient
Functions Over a Finite Alphabet and
Their Applications in Cryptography . . . 121--149
Yves Edel and
Jürgen Bierbrauer $41$ is the Largest Size of a Cap in
${\rm PG}(4,4)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--160
Graham Norton On Minimal Realization Over a Finite
Chain Ring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--178
Kevin T. Phelps and
Mike LeVan Switching Equivalence Classes of Perfect
Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--184
A. J. van Zanten and
Agung Lukito Construction of Certain Cyclic
Distance-Preserving Codes Having
Linear-Algebraic Characteristics . . . . 185--199
L. M. Batten and
J. M. Dover Some Sets of Type in Cubic Order Planes 211--213
Alexis Bonnecaze and
Bernard Mourrain and
Patrick Solé Jacobi Polynomials, Type II Codes, and
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--234
M. A. Chateauneuf and
Charles J. Colbourn and
D. L. Kreher Covering Arrays of Strength Three . . . 235--242
Sebastian Egner and
Thomas Beth How to Play $M_{13}$? . . . . . . . . . 243--247
John Friedlander and
Michael Larsen and
Daniel Lieman and
Igor Shparlinski On The Correlation Of Binary
$M$-sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--256
Philippe Gaborit and
Masaaki Harada Construction of Extremal Type II Codes
over ${\bf Z}_4$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--269
William J. Martin Designs in Product Association Schemes 271--289
Deirdre Longacher Smeltzer Properties of Codes from Difference Sets
in $2$-Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--306
Anonymous Guest Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
J. D. Key and
H. F. Mattson, Jr. Edward F. Assmus, Jr. (1931--1998) . . . 7--11
Anonymous Ed Assmus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--14
Aiden A. Bruen and
David L. Wehlau Long Binary Linear Codes and Large Caps
in Projective Space . . . . . . . . . . 37--60
Bernhard Schmidt Williamson Matrices and a Conjecture of
Ito's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--68
Yu Qing Chen On a Family of Covering Extended
Building Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--72
Harold N. Ward An Introduction to Divisible Codes . . . 73--79
Pascale Charpin and
Aimo Tietäväinen and
Victor Zinoviev On the Minimum Distances of Non-Binary
Cyclic Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--85
G. Cohen and
J. Rif\`a and
J. Tena and
G. Zémor On the Characterization of Linear
Uniquely Decodable Codes . . . . . . . . 87--96
Joseph A. Thas and
Hendrik Van Maldeghem On Embeddings of the Flag Geometries of
Projective Planes in Finite Projective
Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--104
Neil J. Calkin and
J. D. Key and
M. J. De Resmini Minimum Weight and Dimension Formulas
for Some Geometric Codes . . . . . . . . 105--120
Vladimir D. Tonchev Linear Perfect Codes and a
Characterization of the Classical
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--128
Jörg Eisfeld The Eigenspaces of the
Bose-Mesner-Algebras of the Association
Schemes corresponding to Projective
Spaces and Polar Spaces . . . . . . . . 129--150
Ray Hill An Extension Theorem for Linear Codes 151--157
Yury J. Ionin Building Symmetric Designs With Building
Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--175
Hans Dobbertin Another Proof of Kasami's Theorem . . . 177--180
Anton Betten and
Reinhard Laue and
Alfred Wassermann A Steiner $5$-Design on $36$ Points . . 181--186
Willem H. Haemers and
René Peeters and
Jeroen M. van Rijckevorsel Binary Codes of Strongly Regular Graphs 187--209
Qing Xiang Maximally Nonlinear Functions and Bent
Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--218
Klaus Metsch A Bose-Burton Theorem for Elliptic Polar
Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219--224
J. F. Dillon Multiplicative Difference Sets via
Additive Characters . . . . . . . . . . 225--235
Simeon Ball and
Aart Blokhuis and
Christine M. O'Keefe On Unitals with Many Baer Sublines . . . 237--252
G. L. Ebert and
J. W. P. Hirschfeld Complete Systems of Lines on a Hermitian
Surface over a Finite Field . . . . . . 253--268
Tor Helleseth and
Victor Zinoviev On $Z_4$-Linear Goethals Codes and
Kloosterman Sums . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--288
Richard M. Wilson Signed Hypergraph Designs and Diagonal
Forms for Some Incidence Matrices . . . 289--297
A. Blokhuis and
A. E. Brouwer The Universal Embedding Dimension of the
Near Polygon on the $1$-Factors of a
Complete Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299--303
James A. Davis and
Jonathan Jedwab A New Family of Relative Difference Sets
in $2$-Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--312
Dieter Jungnickel and
Jack van Lint Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
K. T. Arasu and
N. J. Voss Answering a Question of Pott on Almost
Perfect Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . 7--10
Christine Bachoc On Harmonic Weight Enumerators of Binary
Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--28
Thierry P. Berger and
Pascale Charpin The Automorphism Groups of BCH Codes and
of Some Affine-Invariant Codes Over
Extension Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--53
Wayne Broughton and
Gary McGuire Some Observations on Quasi-$3$ Designs
and Hadamard Matrices . . . . . . . . . 55--61
Matthew R. Brown and
Christine M. O'Keefe and
Tim Penttila Triads, Flocks of Conics and
$Q^{-(5,1)}$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--70
Gérard D. Cohen and
Sylvia B. Encheva and
Gilles Zémor Antichain Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--80
Charles A. Cusack and
Spyros S. Magliveras Semiregular Large Sets . . . . . . . . . 81--87
D. de Caen and
E. R. van Dam Association Schemes Related to Kasami
Codes and Kerdock Sets . . . . . . . . . 89--102
Iwan Duursma and
Tor Helleseth and
Chunming Rong and
Kyeongcheol Yang Split Weight Enumerators for the
Preparata Codes with Applications to
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--124
J. E. Fields and
P. Gaborit and
W. C. Huffman and
V. Pless On the Classification of Extremal Even
Formally Self-Dual Codes . . . . . . . . 125--148
Shuhong Gao and
Jason Howell A General Polynomial Sieve . . . . . . . 149--157
Chat Yin Ho Incidence Matrices and Collineations of
Finite Projective Planes . . . . . . . . 159--162
H. Janwa and
H. F. Mattson, Jr. Some Upper Bounds on the Covering Radii
of Linear Codes Over and Their
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--181
G. B. Khosrovshahi and
Reza Naserasr Hypergraphical Codes Arising from Binary
Trades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183--186
Rudolf Mathon and
Tran van Trung Directed $t$-Packings and Directed
$t$-Steiner Systems . . . . . . . . . . 187--198
Klaus Metsch and
L. Storme Partial $t$-Spreads in
$\mbox{PG}(2t+1,q)$ . . . . . . . . . . 199--216
Alan R. Prince Flag-Transitive Affine Planes of Order
$64$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217--221
Mattias Svanström A Class of Perfect Ternary
Constant-Weight Codes . . . . . . . . . 223--229
Jack van Lint and
Ludo Tolhuizen On Perfect Ternary Constant Weight Codes 231--234
Tamás Szhonyi On the Embedding of $(k,p)$-Arcs is
Maximal Arcs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--246
J. H. Dinitz and
E. R. Lamken HOPs and COPs: Room frames with
partitionable transversals . . . . . . . 5--26
Todd D. Vance A Gap in GRM Code Weight Distributions 27--43
Xian-Mo Zhang and
Yuliang Zheng and
Hideki Imai Relating Differential Distribution
Tables to Other Properties of of
Substitution Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . 45--63
Neal Koblitz Guest Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--76
Simon Blake-Wilson Information Security, Mathematics, and
Public-Key Cryptography . . . . . . . . 77--99
Arjen K. Lenstra Integer Factoring . . . . . . . . . . . 101--128
Andrew Odlyzko Discrete Logarithms: The Past and the
Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--145
Ueli M. Maurer and
Stefan Wolf The Diffie--Hellman Protocol . . . . . . 147--171
Neal Koblitz and
Alfred Menezes and
Scott Vanstone The State of Elliptic Curve Cryptography 173--193
Jerome A. Solinas Efficient Arithmetic on Koblitz Curves 195--249
Joseph H. Silverman The Xedni Calculus and the Elliptic
Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem . . . . 5--40
Michael J. Jacobson and
Neal Koblitz and
Joseph H. Silverman and
Andreas Stein and
Edlyn Teske Analysis of the Xedni Calculus Attack 41--64
James M. McQuillan Pencils of Hyperconics in Projective
Planes of Characteristic Two . . . . . . 65--71
Jacques Wolfmann Difference Sets in $Z_4^m$ and
$F_2^{2m}$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--88
Ralph-Hardo Schulz and
Antonino Giorgio Spera Automorphisms of Constant Weight Codes
and of Divisible Designs . . . . . . . . 89--97
Grégoire Bommier and
Francis Blanchet Binary Quasi-Cyclic Goppa Codes . . . . 107--124
Graham H. Norton and
Ana Salagean-Mandache On the Key Equation Over a Commutative
Ring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--141
Arrigo Bonisoli and
Antonio Cossidente Mixed Partitions of Projective
Geometries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--154
A. Halbutogullari and
C. K. Koc Parallel Multiplication in using
Polynomial Residue Arithmetic . . . . . 155--173
Jacques Patarin Cryptanalysis of the Matsumoto and Imai
Public Key Scheme of Eurocrypt'98 . . . 175--209
Charles J. Colbourn and
Sufang Zhao Maximum Kirkman Signal Sets for
Synchronous Uni-Polar Multi-User
Communication Systems . . . . . . . . . 219--227
Sylvia B. Encheva and
Gérard D. Cohen Linear Codes and Their Coordinate
Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--250
Xiang-dong Hou Bent Functions, Partial Difference Sets,
and Quasi-Frobenius Local Rings . . . . 251--268
Ari Juels and
Marcus Peinado Hiding Cliques for Cryptographic
Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--280
Satoshi Obana and
Kaoru Kurosawa Combinatorial Classification of Optimal
Authentication Codes with Arbitration 281--305
Pratima Panigrahi The Non-Collinearity Graph of the
$(8,2)$ Quadric Is Uniquely
Geometrisable . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--317
Olga Polverino Small Blocking Sets in $\mbox{PG}(2, p)$ 319--324
Ching-Nung Yang and
Chi-Sung Laih New Colored Visual Secret Sharing
Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--336
Aart Blokhuis and
Willem H. Haemers Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
N. G. de Bruijn Jaap Seidel 80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--10
Béla Bajnok Spherical Designs and Generalized
Sum-Free Sets in Abelian Groups . . . . 11--18
R. D. Baker and
J. M. Dover and
G. L. Ebert and
K. L. Wantz Perfect Baer Subplane Partitions and
Three-Dimensional Flag-Transitive Planes 19--39
Peter Beelen and
Ruud Pellikaan The Newton Polygon of Plane Curves with
Many Rational Points . . . . . . . . . . 41--67
A. E. Brouwer Locally Paley Graphs . . . . . . . . . . 69--76
Frans C. Bussemaker and
Willem H. Haemers and
Edward Spence The Search for Pseudo Orthogonal Latin
Squares of Order Six . . . . . . . . . . 77--82
Edwin R. van Dam A Characterization of Association
Schemes from Affine Spaces . . . . . . . 83--86
Frank De Clerck and
Mario Delanote Two-Weight Codes, Partial Geometries and
Steiner Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--98
Ralf Gramlich and
Hendrik Van Maldeghem Epimorphisms of Generalized Polygons
Part 1: Geometrical Characterizations 99--111
Yury J. Ionin and
M. S. Shrikhande Strongly Regular Graphs and Designs with
Three Intersection Numbers . . . . . . . 113--125
Aleksandar Jurivsic and
Jack Koolen A Local Approach to $1$-Homogeneous
Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--147
Jack Koolen and
Monique Laurent and
Alexander Schrijver Equilateral Dimension of the Rectilinear
Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--164
Johannes Maks and
Juriaan Simonis Optimal Subcodes of Second Order
Reed--Muller Codes and Maximal Linear
Spaces of Bivectors of Maximal Rank . . 165--180
William J. Martin Minimum Distance Bounds for $s$-Regular
Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--187
Bernhard Mühlherr On Isomorphisms between Coxeter Groups 189--189
L. J. Rylands and
D. E. Taylor Constructions for Octonion and
Exceptional Jordan Algebras . . . . . . 191--203
Akos Seress Large Families of Cospectral Graphs . . 205--208
Ron Shaw Subsets of $\mbox{PG}(n,2)$ and Maximal
Partial Spreads in $\mbox{PG}(4,2)$ . . 209--222
Irfan Siap and
Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri New Linear Codes Over and and
Improvements on Bounds . . . . . . . . . 223--233
L. Storme and
Zs. Weiner On $1$-Blocking Sets in $\mbox{PG}(n,q),
n\geq 3$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--251
Akos Seress All Lambda-Designs With $\lambda = 2^p$
are Type-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--17
Antonio Cossidente and
Domenico Labbate and
Alessandro Siciliano Veronese Varieties Over Finite Fields
and Their Projections . . . . . . . . . 19--32
Sylvie Dubuc Characterization of Linear Structures 33--45
Satoshi Obana and
Kaoru Kurosawa Bounds and Combinatorial Structure of
$(k,n)$ Multi-Receiver $A$-Codes . . . . 47--63
Joan Daemen and
Lars R. Knudsen and
Vincent Rijmen Linear Frameworks for Block Ciphers . . 65--87
T. Aaron Gulliver and
Masaaki Harada Codes over and Improvements to the
Bounds on Ternary Linear Codes . . . . . 89--96
Andreas Enge and
Dieter Jungnickel Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--99
Gretchen L. Matthews Weierstrass Pairs and Minimum Distance
of Goppa Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--121
Arne Winterhof Some Estimates for Character Sums and
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--131
D. R. Stinson Something About All or Nothing
(Transforms) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--138
Harold N. Ward The Nonexistence of a $[207,4,165]$ Code
over ${\rm GF}(5)$ . . . . . . . . . . . 139--148
Kenichiro Tanabe A New Proof of the Assmus--Mattson
Theorem for Non-Binary Codes . . . . . . 149--155
Agnes V. Dizon-Garciano and
Yutaka Hiramine On Sylow Subgroups of Abelian Affine
Difference Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--163
Tatsuya Maruta On the Nonexistence of $q$-ary Linear
Codes of Dimension Five . . . . . . . . 165--177
Norman L. Johnson Two-Transitive Parallelisms . . . . . . 179--189
U. Dempwolff Primitive Rank $3$ Groups on Symmetric
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--207
Michel Sebille There Exists a Simple Non Trivial
$t$-design with an Arbitrarily Large
Automorphism Group for Every $t$ . . . . 215--219
R. Ahlswede and
H. K. Aydinian and
L. H. Khachatrian On Perfect Codes and Related Concepts 221--237
R. Scheidler Cryptography in Quadratic Function
Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--264
Kaoru Kurosawa and
Satoshi Obana Combinatorial Bounds on Authentication
Codes with Arbitration . . . . . . . . . 265--281
Vikram Jha and
Norman L. Johnson Almost Desarguesian Maximal Partial
Spreads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--304
Alexander A. Davydov New Constructions of Covering Codes . . 305--316
Karl Brincat On the Use of RSA as a Secret Key
Cryptosystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--329
Olof Heden A Maximal Partial Spread of Size $45$ in
${\rm PG}(3,7)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--334
Igor Shparlinski On the Linear Complexity of the Power
Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--10
Koichi Betsumiya and
Masaaki Harada Binary Optimal Odd Formally Self-Dual
Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--22
Tadashi Wadayama and
Toru Hada and
Koichiro Wakasugi and
Masao Kasahara Upper and Lower Bounds on Maximum
Nonlinearity of $n$-input $m$-output
Boolean Function . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--34
Blessilda P. Raposa Some Triple Block Intersection Numbers
of Paley $2$-Designs of QN-type . . . . 35--52
Andreas Enge The Extended Euclidian Algorithm on
Polynomials, and the Computational
Efficiency of Hyperelliptic
Cryptosystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--74
J. E. Iiams A Note on Certain 2-Groups with Hadamard
Difference Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--80
Christophe Mouaha and
Gerhard Schiffels All $q^m$-ary Cyclic Codes with Cyclic
$q$-ary Image Are Known . . . . . . . . 81--98
Jianxing Yin A Combinatorial Construction for Perfect
Deletion-Correcting Codes . . . . . . . 99--110
I. Honkala and
A. Klapper Bounds for the Multicovering Radii of
Reed--Muller Codes with Applications to
Stream Ciphers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--146
Igor Shparlinski On Some Properties of the Shrinking
Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--156
Tor Helleseth and
P. Vijay Kumar and
Halvard Martinsen A New Family of Ternary Sequences with
Ideal Two-level Autocorrelation Function 157--166
T. Aaron Gulliver and
Nikolai Senkevitch Optimal Ternary Linear Rate $1/2$ Codes 167--172
Luke O'Connor On String Replacement Exponentiation . . 173--184
B. N. Cooperstein Hyperplane Sections of Kantor's Unitary
Ovoids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--196
Yves Edel and
Jürgen Bierbrauer Large Caps in Small Spaces . . . . . . . 197--212
Kenzi Akiyama On Certain Schur Rings of Dimension $4$ 213--222
Ilia Krasikov and
Simon Litsyn On the Distance Distributions of BCH
Codes and Their Duals . . . . . . . . . 223--232
Marco Buratti and
Fulvio Zuanni Perfect Cayley Designs as
Generalizations of Perfect Mendelsohn
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--248
J. A. Thas Characterizations of Translation
Generalized Quadrangles . . . . . . . . 249--258
C. Koukouvinos and
M. Mitrouli and
Jennifer Seberry Values of Minors of $(1,-1)$ Incidence
Matrices of SBIBDs and Their Application
to the Growth Problem . . . . . . . . . 267--282
N. A. Howgrave-Graham and
N. P. Smart Lattice Attacks on Digital Signature
Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--290
Sharad Sane A Proof of the Jungnickel-Tonchev
Conjecture on Quasi-Multiple
Quasi-Symmetric Designs . . . . . . . . 291--296
Marc Joye and
Jean-Jacques Quisquater and
Tsuyoshi Takagi How to Choose Secret Parameters for
RSA-Type Cryptosystems over Elliptic
Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297--316
K. T. Arasu and
Yu Qing Chen A Difference Set in $(\mathbb{Z}/4
\mathbb{Z})^3 \times
\mathbb{Z}/5\mathbb{Z}$ . . . . . . . . 317--324
Koichi Betsumiya and
Masaaki Harada Classification of Formally Self-Dual
Even Codes of Lengths up to $16$ . . . . 325--332
Galina T. Bogdanova and
Andries E. Brouwer and
Stoian N. Kapralov and
Patric R. J. Östergård Error-Correcting Codes over an Alphabet
of Four Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . 333--342
Kanat S. Abdukhalikov Affine Invariant and Cyclic Codes over
$p$-adic Numbers and Finite Rings . . . 343--370
G. Hughes Structure Theorems for Group Ring Codes
with an Application to Self-Dual Codes 5--14
Houshou Chen and
John T. Coffey Trellis Structure and Higher Weights of
Extremal Self-Dual Codes . . . . . . . . 15--36
István Kovács On the Internal Nuclei of Sets in ${\rm
PG}(n,q)$, $q$ is Odd . . . . . . . . . 37--42
Chris Boner Maximal Weight Divisors of Projective
Reed--Muller Codes . . . . . . . . . . . 43--47
Siaw-Lynn Ng and
Michael Walker On the Composition of Matroids and Ideal
Secret Sharing Schemes . . . . . . . . . 49--67
D. Wu and
L. Zhu Generalized Steiner Systems with a Prime
Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--80
P. Véron True Dimension of Some Binary Quadratic
Trace Goppa Codes . . . . . . . . . . . 81--97
Gabriele Nebe and
E. M. Rains and
N. J. A. Sloane The Invariants of the Clifford Groups 99--122
Martin Bokler Minimal Blocking Sets in Projective
Spaces of Square Order . . . . . . . . . 131--144
Amir K. Khandani and
M. Esmaeili Successive Minimization of the State
Complexity of the Self-dual Lattices
Using Korkin-Zolotarev Reduced Basis . . 145--158
Sönke Blunck On the Existence and Construction of
Tight Fourth Order Quadrature Rules for
the Sphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--169
A. Baliga Cocyclic Codes of Length $40$ . . . . . 171--179
Kwok Yan Lam and
Francesco Sica The Weight Distribution of . . . . . . . 181--191
Iiro Honkala and
Tero Laihonen and
Sanna Ranto On Codes Identifying Sets of Vertices in
Hamming Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--204
Simeon Ball and
Ray Hill and
Ivan Landjev and
Harold Ward On $(q^2 + q + 2, q + 2)$-arcs in the
Projective Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--224
Zvonimir Janko and
Hadi Kharaghani and
Vladimir D. Tonchev The Existence of a Bush-Type Hadamard
Matrix of Order $324$ and Two New
Infinite Classes of Symmetric Designs 225--232
E. Ballico and
A. Cossidente Curves in Projective Spaces and Almost
MDS Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--237
Mariko Hagita and
Bernhard Schmidt Bijections Between Group Rings
Preserving Character Sums . . . . . . . 243--254
Carlo Blundo and
Annalisa De Bonis and
Alfredo De Santis Improved Schemes for Visual Cryptography 255--278
Igor E. Shparlinski and
Joseph H. Silverman On the Linear Complexity of the
Naor--Reingold Pseudo-random Function
from Elliptic Curves . . . . . . . . . . 279--289
Clement Lam and
Ying Miao Difference Families . . . . . . . . . . 291--304
H. Tapia-Recillas and
G. Vega An Upper Bound on the Number of
Iterations for Transforming a Boolean
Function of Degree Greater or Equal Than
$4$ to a Function of Degree $3$ . . . . 305--312
Nuh Aydin and
Irfan Siap and
Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri The Structure of $1$-Generator
Quasi-Twisted Codes and New Linear Codes 313--326
Wenbo Mao Verifiable Partial Escrow of Integer
Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--342
Jeong-Heon Kim and
Hong-Yeop Song Trace Representation of Legendre
Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343--348
Stefka Bouyuklieva On the Automorphisms of Order $2$ with
Fixed Points for the Extremal Self-Dual
Codes of Length . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--13
Philip A. Eisen and
Douglas R. Stinson Threshold Visual Cryptography Schemes
with Specified Whiteness Levels of
Reconstructed Pixels . . . . . . . . . . 15--61
Arne Winterhof Polynomial Interpolation of the Discrete
Logarithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--72
Etsuko Bannai and
Mitsuhiro Sawano Symmetric Designs Attached to
Four-Weight Spin Models . . . . . . . . 73--90
D. Brozovic and
C. Ho and
A. Munemasa A Correction to ``Incidence Matrices and
Collineations of Finite Projective
Planes'' by Chat Yin Ho, Designs, Codes
and Cryptography, 18 (1999), 159--162 91--93
T. Blackmore and
G. H. Norton Lower Bounds on the State Complexity of
Geometric Goppa Codes . . . . . . . . . 95--115
K. T. Arasu and
Warwick de Launey and
S. L. Ma On Circulant Complex Hadamard Matrices 123--142
S. Ferret and
L. Storme Minihypers and Linear Codes Meeting the
Griesmer Bound: Improvements to Results
of Hamada, Helleseth and Maekawa . . . . 143--162
Stelios Georgiou and
Masaaki Harada and
Christos Koukouvinos Orthogonal Designs and Type II Codes
over $\mathbb{Z}_{2k}$ . . . . . . . . . 163--174
Sergio Cabello and
Carles Padró and
Germán Sáez Secret Sharing Schemes with Detection of
Cheaters for a General Access Structure 175--188
Jürgen Bierbrauer The Theory of Cyclic Codes and a
Generalization to Additive Codes . . . . 189--206
Jorge Guajardo and
Christof Paar Itoh-Tsujii Inversion in Standard Basis
and Its Application in Cryptography and
Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--216
Ingrid Biehl and
Johannes Buchmann and
Safuat Hamdy and
Andreas Meyer A Signature Scheme Based on the
Intractability of Computing Roots . . . 223--236
Massimo Giulietti and
Fernanda Pambianco and
Fernando Torres and
Emanuela Ughi On Complete Arcs Arising from Plane
Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--246
Koen Thas A Theorem Concerning Nets Arising from
Generalized Quadrangles with a Regular
Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--253
Luis Martínez and
Antonio Vera-López Ring-Valued Assignments to the Points of
a $t$-Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--262
C. Carlet and
Yu. Tarannikov Covering Sequences of Boolean Functions
and Their Cryptographic Significance . . 263--279
Carles Padró and
Ignacio Gracia and
Sebasti\`a Martín Molleví and
Paz Morillo Linear Key Predistribution Schemes . . . 281--298
John B. Polhill Constructions of Nested Partial
Difference Sets with Galois Rings . . . 299--309
Edoardo Ballico and
Antonio Cossidente Hermitian Veronesean Schemes . . . . . . 311--317
Charles J. Colbourn and
Douglas R. Stinson and
G. H. John van Rees Preface: In Honour of Ronald C. Mullin 5--6
R. Julian R. Abel and
F. E. Bennett and
G. Ge The Existence of Four HMOLS with Equal
Sized Holes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--31
R. Julian R. Abel and
Iliya Bluskov and
Malcolm Greig Balanced Incomplete Block Designs with
Block Size $9$ and $\lambda=2,4,8$ . . . 33--59
R. T. Bilous and
G. H. J. van Rees An Enumeration of Binary Self-Dual Codes
of Length $32$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--86
Ian F. Blake and
Theodoulos Garefalakis On the Security of the Digital Signature
Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--96
C. Blundo and
B. Masucci and
D. R. Stinson and
R. Wei Constructions and Bounds for
Unconditionally Secure Non-Interactive
Commitment Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . 97--110
Marco Buratti Cyclic Designs with Block Size $4$ and
Related Optimal Optical Orthogonal Codes 111--125
H. Cao and
L. Zhu Kirkman Packing Designs KPD$(3, 5*,v)$ 127--138
Chris Charnes and
Martin Rötteler and
Thomas Beth Homogeneous Bent Functions, Invariants,
and Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--154
Yanxun Chang and
Ying Miao General Constructions for Double Group
Divisible Designs and Double Frames . . 155--168
Charles J. Colbourn and
E. R. Lamken and
Alan C. H. Ling and
W. H. Mills The Existence of Kirkman Squares ---
Doubly Resolvable $(v,3,1)$-BIBDs . . . 169--196
Peng Ding and
Jennifer D. Key Subcodes of the Projective Generalized
Reed--Muller Codes Spanned by
Minimum-Weight Vectors . . . . . . . . . 197--211
Marialuisa J. de Resmini and
Dina Ghinelli and
Dieter Jungnickel Arcs and Ovals from Abelian Groups . . . 213--228
Michael Drmota and
Daniel Panario A Rigorous Proof of the Waterloo
Algorithm for the Discrete Logarithm
Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--241
F. Franek and
M. J. Grannell and
T. S. Griggs and
A. Rosa On Large Sets of $v-1$ L-Intersecting
Steiner Triple Systems of Order $v$ . . 243--256
Ryoh Fuji-Hara and
Ying Miao A Note on Geometric Structures of Linear
Ordered Orthogonal Arrays and
(T,M,S)-Nets of Low Strength . . . . . . 257--263
G. Ge and
R. S. Rees On Group-Divisible Designs with Block
Size Four and Group-Type gum1 . . . . . 5--24
Malcolm Greig Finite Linear Spaces II . . . . . . . . 25--47
Hans-Dietrich O. F. Gronau and
Martin Grüttmüller and
Sven Hartmann and
Uwe Leck and
Volker Leck On Orthogonal Double Covers of Graphs 49--91
M. J. Jacobson and
Jr. and
H. C. Williams Modular Arithmetic on Elements of Small
Norm in Quadratic Fields . . . . . . . . 93--110
Clement Lam and
Vladimir D. Tonchev A New Bound on the Number of Designs
with Classical Affine Parameters . . . . 111--117
Rudolf Mathon and
Anne Penfold Street Partitioning Sets of Triples into Small
Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--130
Patric R. J. Östergård and
Petteri Kaski Enumeration of $2-(9, 3, \lambda)$
Designs and Their Resolutions . . . . . 131--137
Kevin T. Phelps and
Merc\`e Villanueva Ranks of $q$-Ary $1$-Perfect Codes . . . 139--144
Nabil Shalaby and
Jianmin Wang and
Jianxing Yin Existence of Perfect
$4$-Deletion-Correcting Codes with
Length Six . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--156
Gustavus J. Simmons Parity Encoding of Binary Sequences . . 157--164
Brett Stevens and
Eric Mendelsohn Packing Arrays and Packing Designs . . . 165--176
Kevin T. Phelps and
Merc\`e Villanueva On Perfect Codes: Rank and Kernel . . . 183--194
Vikram Jha and
Norman L. Johnson Transversal-Free Translation Nets . . . 195--205
Wen-Guey Tzeng and
Chi-Ming Hu A New Approach for Visual Cryptography 207--227
S. Murphy and
M. J. B. Robshaw Key-Dependent S-Boxes and Differential
Cryptanalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--255
Patric R. J. Östergård A $2-(22, 8, 4)$ Design Cannot Have a
$2-(10, 4, 4)$ Subdesign . . . . . . . . 257--260
A. Ashikhmin and
A. Barg Bounds on the Covering Radius of Linear
Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--269
Fang-Wei Fu and
Victor K.-W. Wei Self-Complementary Balanced Codes and
Quasi-Symmetric Designs . . . . . . . . 271--279
K. J. Horadam and
P. Udaya A New Construction of Central Relative
$(p^a, p^a, p^a, 1)$-Difference Sets . . 281--295
Patric R. J. Östergård Classifying Subspaces of Hamming Spaces 297--305
David Pointcheval and
Guillaume Poupard A New \mathcalNP-Complete Problem and
Public-Key Identification . . . . . . . 5--31
Simon Joseph Agou and
Marc Deléglise and
Jean-Louis Nicolas Short Polynomial Representations for
Square Roots Modulo $p$ . . . . . . . . 33--44
Emily H. Moore and
Harriet Pollatsek Looking for Difference Sets in Groups
with Dihedral Images . . . . . . . . . . 45--50
P. Govaerts and
L. Storme On a Particular Class of Minihypers and
Its Applications. I. The Result for
General $q$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--63
V. Abatangelo and
B. Larato Doubly $\beta$-Derived Translation
Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--74
K. T. Arasu and
Kevin J. Player A New Family of Cyclic Difference Sets
with Singer Parameters in Characteristic
Three . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--91
Xiang-dong Hou On Binary Resilient Functions . . . . . 93--112
Laurie Law and
Alfred Menezes and
Minghua Qu and
Jerry Solinas and
Scott Vanstone An Efficient Protocol for Authenticated
Key Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--134
Sergei Konyagin and
Tanja Lange and
Igor Shparlinski Linear Complexity of the Discrete
Logarithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--146
V. C. Mavron and
T. P. McDonough and
M. S. Shrikhande Quasi-Symmetric Designs with Good Blocks
and Intersection Number One . . . . . . 147--162
Stefka Bouyuklieva and
Masaaki Harada Extremal Self-Dual $[50, 25, 10]$ Codes
with Automorphisms of Order $3$ and
Quasi-Symmetric $2-(49, 9, 6)$ Designs 163--169
Koichi Betsumiya and
T. Aaron Gulliver and
Masaaki Harada Extremal Self-Dual Codes over
$\mathbb{F}_2 \times \mathbb{F}_2$ . . . 171--186
Sheng-bo Xu and
Jeroen Doumen and
Henk van Tilborg On the Security of Digital Signature
Schemes Based on Error-Correcting Codes 187--199
Svetla Nikova and
Ventzislav Nikov Improvement of the Delsarte Bound for
$\theta$-Designs When It Is Not the Best
Bound Possible . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--222
Mida Guillermo and
Keith M. Martin and
Christine M. O'Keefe Providing Anonymity in Unconditionally
Secure Secret Sharing Schemes . . . . . 227--245
Dong-Joon Shin and
P. Vijay Kumar and
Tor Helleseth $3$-Designs from the $Z_4$-Goethals
Codes via a New Kloosterman Sum Identity 247--263
Tor Helleseth and
Torleiv Klòve and
Vladimir I. Levenshtein Hypercubic $4$ and $5$-Designs from
Double-Error-Correcting BCH Codes . . . 265--282
David Masson Designs and Representation of the
Symmetric Group . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--302
Klaus Huber Taking $p$th Roots Modulo Polynomials
over Finite Fields . . . . . . . . . . . 303--311
A. Blokhuis and
J. W. P. Hirschfeld and
D. Jungnickel and
J. A. Thas Finite Geometries . . . . . . . . . . . 5--5
A. Aguglia and
A. Cossidente and
G. L. Ebert Complete Spans on Hermitian Varieties 7--15
R. Ahlswede and
H. Aydinian and
L. H. Khachatrian Forbidden $(0,1)$-Vectors in Hyperplanes
of $\mathbb{R}^n$: The Restricted Case 17--28
Rudolf Ahlswede and
Levon Khachatrian Cone Dependence---A Basic Combinatorial
Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--40
Laura Bader and
Nicola Durante and
Maska Law and
Guglielmo Lunardon and
Tim Penttila Symmetries of BLT-Sets . . . . . . . . . 41--50
Thomas Beth and
Christopher Charnes and
Markus Grassl and
Gernot Alber and
Aldo Delgado and
Michael Mussinger A New Class of Designs Which Protect
against Quantum Jumps . . . . . . . . . 51--70
Jürgen Bierbrauer and
Stefano Marcugini and
Fernanda Pambianco Projective Planes, Coverings and a
Network Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--89
Aart Blokhuis and
Tamás Sz[odblac]nyi and
Zsuzsa Weiner On Sets without Tangents in Galois
Planes of Even Order . . . . . . . . . . 91--98
Yves Edel and
Jürgen Bierbrauer The Largest Cap in AG$(4, 4)$ and Its
Uniqueness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--104
S. Ferret and
L. Storme Results on Maximal Partial Spreads in
PG$(3, p^3)$ and on Related Minihypers 105--122
András Gács and
Tamás Sz[odblac]nyi On Maximal Partial Spreads in PG$(n, q)$ 123--129
András Gács and
Zsuzsa Weiner On $(q + t, t)$-Arcs of Type $(0, 2, t)$ 131--139
P. Govaerts and
D. Jungnickel and
L. Storme and
J. A. Thas Some New Maximal Sets of Mutually
Orthogonal Latin Squares . . . . . . . . 141--147
Gohar M. Kyureghyan and
Alexander Pott On the Linear Complexity of the
Sidelnikov-Lempel-Cohn-Eastman Sequences 149--164
I. Landjev and
A. Rousseva and
T. Maruta and
R. Hill On Optimal Codes Over the Field with
Five Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--175
Dimitri Leemans The Residually Weakly Primitive
Geometries of M$_{22}$ . . . . . . . . . 177--178
D. Luyckx and
J. A. Thas On $1$-Systems of Q$(6, q)$, $q$ Even 179--197
Hendrik van Maldeghem Some Remarks on Steiner Systems . . . . 199--213
Klaus Metsch On the Characterization of the Folded
Halved Cubes by Their Intersection
Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--225
Koen Thas Symmetry in Generalized Quadrangles . . 227--245
Vladimir D. Tonchev A Note on MDS Codes, $n$-Arcs and
Complete Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--250
Siaw-Lynn Ng A Representation of a Family of Secret
Sharing Matroids . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--19
Maria Axenovich and
Zoltán Füredi Exact Bounds on the Sizes of Covering
Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--38
Shengli Liu and
Henk C. A. Van Tilborg and
Marten Van Dijk A Practical Protocol for Advantage
Distillation and Information
Reconciliation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--62
Keith E. Mellinger A Geometric Relationship Between
Equivalent Spreads . . . . . . . . . . . 63--71
Cunsheng Ding and
Mordecai Golin and
Torleiv Klòve Meeting the Welch and Karystinos-Pados
Bounds on DS-CDMA Binary Signature Sets 73--84
Antonia W. Bluher On $x^6 + x + a$ in Characteristic Three 85--95
Iliya Bouyukliev and
Juriaan Simonis Some New Results on Optimal Codes Over
$F^5$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--111
San Ling and
Patrick Solé On the Algebraic Structure of
Quasi-cyclic Codes II: Chain Rings . . . 113--130
H. Kharaghani On a Class of Symmetric Balanced
Generalized Weighing Matrices . . . . . 139--149
Daniel B. Dalan New Extremal Type I Codes of Lengths
$40$, $42$, and $44$ . . . . . . . . . . 151--157
Massimiliano Sala Upper Bounds on the Dual Distance of
BCH$(255, k)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--168
Kenichiro Tanabe A Criterion for Designs in $Z_4$-codes
on the Symmetrized Weight Enumerator . . 169--185
Jon-Lark Kim and
Vera Pless Designs in Additive Codes over GF$(4)$ 187--199
Phong Q. Nguyen and
Igor E. Shparlinski The Insecurity of the Elliptic Curve
Digital Signature Algorithm with
Partially Known Nonces . . . . . . . . . 201--217
I. Cardinali and
O. Polverino and
R. Trombetti On the Sporadic Semifield Flock . . . . 219--226
Palash Sarkar and
Paul J. Schellenberg Construction of Symmetric Balanced
Squares with Blocksize More than One . . 235--280
Detlef Hühnlein and
Michael J. Jacobson and
Jr. and
Damian Weber Towards Practical Non-Interactive
Public-Key Cryptosystems Using
Non-Maximal Imaginary Quadratic Orders 281--299
Ederlina G. Nocon On the Construction of Some Type II
Codes over $Z_4 \times Z_4$ . . . . . . 301--323
David B. Chandler and
Qing Xiang Cyclic Relative Difference Sets and
their $p$-Ranks . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--343
Yves Edel Extensions of Generalized Product Caps 5--14
J. Barát and
A. Del Fra and
S. Innamorati and
L. Storme Minimal Blocking Sets in PG$(2, 8)$ and
Maximal Partial Spreads in PG$(3, 8)$ 15--26
Hans Georg Schaathun A Lower Bound on the Greedy Weights of
Product Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--42
David G. Glynn On the Orthogonality of Geometric Codes 43--50
Jovan DJ. Goli\'c and
Renato Menicocci Correlation Analysis of the Alternating
Step Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--74
Dong-Joon Shin and
P. Vijay Kumar and
Tor Helleseth An Assmus--Mattson-Type Approach for
Identifying $3$-Designs from Linear
Codes over Z$_4$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--92
Ingrid Biehl and
Sacher Paulus and
Tsuyoshi Takagi Efficient Undeniable Signature Schemes
Based on Ideal Arithmetic in Quadratic
Orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--123
Tran van Trung and
Sosina Martirosyan On a Class of Traceability Codes . . . . 125--132
S. Rajola and
M. Scafati Tallini Affine Planes and Flag Linear Spaces . . 133--137
T. Aaron Gulliver and
Masaaki Harada On the Minimum Weight of Codes over
$F_5$ Constructed from Certain
Conference Matrices . . . . . . . . . . 139--145
Pantelimon St\uanic\ua and
Soo Hak Sung Boolean Functions with Five Controllable
Cryptographic Properties . . . . . . . . 147--157
U. Dempwolff Affine Rank $3$ Groups on Symmetric
Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--168
Michael E. O'Sullivan On Koetter's Algorithm and the
Computation of Error Values . . . . . . 169--188
David A. Drake and
Kevin Keating Ovals and Hyperovals in Desarguesian
Nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--212
Peter Sin The $p$-Rank of the Incidence Matrix of
Intersecting Linear Subspaces . . . . . 213--220
Andreas Klein Partial Ovoids in Classical Finite Polar
Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--226
Andrew Klapper and
Jinzhong Xu Register Synthesis for Algebraic
Feedback Shift Registers Based on
Non-Primes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--250
Matthew R. Brown and
Christine M. O'Keefe and
S. E. Payne and
Tim Penttila and
Gordon F. Royle Spreads of $T_2(o)$, $\alpha$-flocks and
Ovals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--282
Klaus Metsch Small Point Sets that Meet All
Generators of $W(2 n +1, q)$ . . . . . . 283--288
Gloria Rinaldi Key Distribution Patterns Using Tangent
Circle Structures . . . . . . . . . . . 289--300
Siguna Müller On the Computation of Square Roots in
Finite Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--312
Sergey V. Avgustinovich and
Olof Heden and
Faina I. Solov'eva The Classification of Some Perfect Codes 313--318
Anonymous Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
Anonymous List of Participants . . . . . . . . . . 7--8
Simeon Ball and
John Bamberg and
Michel Lavrauw and
Tim Penttila Symplectic Spreads . . . . . . . . . . . 9--14
Carlo Blundo and
Paolo D'Arco and
Alfredo De Santis and
Massimiliano Listo Design of Self-Healing Key Distribution
Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--44
Julia M. N. Brown On the Action of the Groups
$\mbox{GL}(n+1,q)$, $\mbox{PGL}(n + 1,
q)$, $\mbox{SL}(n + 1, q)$ and
$\mbox{PSL}(n + 1, q)$ on $\mbox{PG}(n,
q^t)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--50
Wensong Chu and
Charles J. Colbourn and
Peter Dukes Constructions for Permutation Codes in
Powerline Communications . . . . . . . . 51--64
Charles J. Colbourn and
Alan C. H. Ling and
Violet R. Syrotiuk Cover-Free Families and
Topology-Transparent Scheduling for
MANETs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--95
A. Cossidente and
M. J. de Resmini Remarks on Singer Cyclic Groups and
Their Normalizers . . . . . . . . . . . 97--102
F. De Clerck and
M. Delanote On $(0,\alpha)$-Geometries and Dual
Semipartial Geometries Fully Embedded in
an Affine Space . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--110
Nikias de Feyter Planar Oval Sets in Desarguesian Planes
of Even Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--119
D. Deng and
D. R. Stinson and
R. WEI The Lovász Local Lemma and Its
Applications to some Combinatorial
Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--134
A. De Santis and
B. Masucci Anonymous Membership Broadcast Schemes 135--151
S. De Winter and
J. A. Thas SPG-Reguli Satisfying the Polar Property
and a New Semipartial Geometry . . . . . 153--166
David A. Drake and
Wendy Myrvold Nets of Small Degree Without Ovals . . . 167--183
Z. Eslami and
G. B. Khosrovshahi and
M. M. Noori Enumeration of $t$-Designs Through
Intersection Matrices . . . . . . . . . 185--191
S. Georgiou and
C. Koukouvinos Self-Orthogonal and Self-Dual Codes
Constructed via Combinatorial Designs
and Diophantine Equations . . . . . . . 193--206
M. I. González Vasco and
D. Hofheinz and
C. Martínez and
R. Steinwandt On the Security of Two Public Key
Cryptosystems Using Non-Abelian Groups 207--216
Otokar Gro\vsek and
Peter Horák and
Tran van Trung On Non-Polynomial Latin Squares . . . . 217--226
Yury J. Ionin Regular Hadamard Matrices Generating
Infinite Families of Symmetric Designs 227--233
G. B. Khosrovshahi and
B. Tayfeh-Rezaie Some Indecomposable $t$-Designs . . . . 235--238
G. Korchmáros and
A. Sonnino Hyperbolic Ovals in Finite Planes . . . 239--249
Selda Kücçükcçìfcçì and
C. C. Lindner Minimum Covering for Hexagon Triple
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--265
Domenico Labbate Amalgams of Cubic Bipartite Graphs . . . 267--275
Reinhard Laue Resolvable $t$-Designs . . . . . . . . . 277--301
X. Ma and
R. Wei On a Bound of Cover-Free Families . . . 303--321
Sosina Martirosyan and
Tran van Trung On $t$-Covering Arrays . . . . . . . . . 323--339
Keith E. Mellinger LDPC Codes from Triangle-Free Line Sets 341--350
Alan Offer and
Hendrik Van Maldeghem Spreads and Ovoids Translation with
Respect to Disjoint Flags . . . . . . . 351--367
Tanya E. Seidel and
Daniel Socek and
Michal Sramka Parallel Symmetric Attack on NTRU using
Non-Deterministic Lattice Reduction . . 369--379
R. Shaw and
N. A. Gordon The Quintic Grassmannian $G_{1, 4, 2}$
in $\mbox{PG}(9, 2)$ . . . . . . . . . . 381--396
János Barát and
Leo Storme Multiple Blocking Sets in
$\mbox{PG}(n,q), n > 3$ . . . . . . . . . 5--21
Jong-Seon No and
Dong-Joon Shin and
Tor Helleseth On the $p$-Ranks and Characteristic
Polynomials of Cyclic Difference Sets 23--37
Tor Helleseth and
Johannes Mykkeltveit A Proof of Simmons' Conjecture . . . . . 39--43
Steven T. Dougherty and
Keisuke Shiromoto Maximum Distance Codes in
$\mbox{Mat}_{n,s} (Z_k)$ with a
Non-Hamming Metric and Uniform
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--61
David A. Drake and
Wendy Myrvold The Non-Existence of Maximal Sets of
Four Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares
of Order $8$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--69
Harold N. Ward A Sequence of Unique Quaternary Griesmer
Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--85
Conchita Martínez-Pérez and
Wolfgang Willems On the Weight Hierarchy of Product Codes 95--108
Wilfried Meidl How Many Bits have to be Changed to
Decrease the Linear Complexity? . . . . 109--122
Mark Goresky and
Andrew Klapper Periodicity and Correlation Properties
of $d$-FCSR Sequences . . . . . . . . . 123--148
Masaaki Harada and
Michio Ozeki and
Kenichiro Tanabe On the Covering Radius of Ternary
Extremal Self-Dual Codes . . . . . . . . 149--158
J. L. Hayden Eigenvalues of Finite Projective Planes
with an Abelian Cartesian Group . . . . 159--172
Lucio Guerra and
Rita Vincenti On the Linear Codes Arising from
Schubert Varieties . . . . . . . . . . . 173--180
Wiebke S. Diestelkamp Parameter Inequalities for Orthogonal
Arrays with Mixed Levels . . . . . . . . 187--197
Jong-Seon No New Cyclic Difference Sets with Singer
Parameters Constructed from
$d$-Homogeneous Functions . . . . . . . 199--213
María Isabel González Vasco and
Consuelo Martínez and
Rainer Steinwandt Towards a Uniform Description of Several
Group Based Cryptographic Primitives . . 215--226
Cunsheng Ding and
Xiaojian Tian Three Constructions of Authentication
Codes with Perfect Secrecy . . . . . . . 227--239
Carlo Blundo and
Sebasti\`a Martín and
Barbara Masucci and
CarlEs Padró A Linear Algebraic Approach to Metering
Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--260
Alfred Menezes and
Nigel Smart Security of Signature Schemes in a
Multi-User Setting . . . . . . . . . . . 261--274
Joseph L. Yucas and
Gary L. Mullen Self-Reciprocal Irreducible Polynomials
Over Finite Fields . . . . . . . . . . . 275--281
Tatsuya Maruta and
Ivan N. Landjev and
Assya Rousseva On the Minimum Size of Some Minihypers
and Related Linear Codes . . . . . . . . 5--15
Jaume Martí-Farré and
Carles Padró Secret Sharing Schemes with Three or
Four Minimal Qualified Subsets . . . . . 17--34
Ferruh Özbudak Elements of Prescribed Order, Prescribed
Traces and Systems of Rational Functions
Over Finite Fields . . . . . . . . . . . 35--54
Michael Braun and
Adalbert Kerber and
Reinhard Laue Systematic Construction of $q$-Analogs
of $t-(v, k,\lambda)$-Designs . . . . . 55--70
Masaaki Harada and
Clement Lam and
Vladimir D. Tonchev Symmetric $(4,4)$-Nets and Generalized
Hadamard Matrices Over Groups of Order
$4$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--87
Bikash Kumar Dey and
B. Sundar Rajan $F_q$-linear Cyclic Codes over $F^m_q$:
DFT Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--116
Gennian Ge and
Alan C. H. Ling Group Divisible Designs with Block Size
Four and Group Type $g^u m^1$ with
Minimum $m$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--126
Aart Blokhuis and
Willem Haemers Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--135
Edwin R. Van Dam The Combinatorics of Dom de Caen . . . . 137--148
D. De Caen and
D. Fon-Der-Flaass Distance Regular Covers of Complete
Graphs from Latin Squares . . . . . . . 149--153
K. Coolsaet and
J. Degraer A Computer-Assisted Proof of the
Uniqueness of the Perkel Graph . . . . . 155--171
Bang Sejeong and
J. H. Koolen Some Interlacing Results for the
Eigenvalues of Distance-regular graphs 173--186
Hirasaka On Meta-Thin Association Schemes . . . . 187--201
Ron Shaw and
Johannes G. Maks and
Neil A. Gordon The Classification of Flats in which are
External to the Grassmannian . . . . . . 203--227
Dragos Cvetkovi\'c and
Peter Rowlinson and
Slobodan K. Simi\'c Graphs With Least Eigenvalue $-2$: A New
Proof of the $31$ Forbidden Subgraphs
Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--240
Brian Curtin Algebraic Characterizations of Graph
Regularity Conditions . . . . . . . . . 241--248
Mikhail Muzychuk and
István Kovács A Solution of a Problem of A. E. Brouwer 249--264
Ákos Seress Square-Free Non-Cayley Numbers. On
Vertex-Transitive Non-Cayley Graphs of
Square-Free Order . . . . . . . . . . . 265--281
Joseph A. Thas and
Hendrik Van Maldeghem Some Characterizations of Finite
Hermitian Veroneseans . . . . . . . . . 283--293
R. D. Baker and
G. L. Ebert and
Tim Penttila Hyperbolic Fibrations and $q$-Clans . . 295--305
Paul Terwilliger Two Linear Transformations each
Tridiagonal with Respect to an
Eigenbasis of the other; Comments on the
Parameter Array . . . . . . . . . . . . 307--332
Hans Cuypers A Note on the Tight Spherical $7$-Design
in and $5$-Design in . . . . . . . . . . 333--337
Klaus Metsch Blocking Structures of Hermitian
Varieties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--360
Jovan DJ. Goli\'c and
Philip Hawkes Vectorial Approach to Fast Correlation
Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--19
John P. Mcsorley and
N. C. K. Phillips and
W. D. Wallis and
others Double Arrays, Triple Arrays and
Balanced Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--45
Wen-Guey Tzeng and
Zhi-Jia Tzeng A Public-Key Traitor Tracing Scheme with
Revocation Using Dynamic Shares . . . . 47--61
Thierry P. Berger and
Pierre Loidreau How to Mask the Structure of Codes for a
Cryptographic Use . . . . . . . . . . . 63--79
Olgica Milenkovic Support Weight Enumerators and Coset
Weight Distributions of Isodual Codes 81--109
Florian Hess and
Igor E. Shparlinski On the Linear Complexity and
Multidimensional Distribution of
Congruential Generators over Elliptic
Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--117
Daniel R. L. Brown Generic Groups, Collision Resistance,
and ECDSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--152
Rafa\l Bia\lota and
Grzegorz Kawa Modified Alternating
$\stackrel{\rightarrow}{k}$ generators 159--174
Tatsuya Maruta Extendability of Ternary Linear Codes 175--190
Mingyuan Xia and
Tianbing Xia and
Jennifer Seberry A New Method for Constructing Williamson
Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--209
Cícero Carvalho and
Fernando Torres On Goppa Codes and Weierstrass Gaps at
Several Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--225
Tran Van Trung and
Sosina Martirosyan New Constructions for IPP Codes . . . . 227--239
Patric R. J. Östergård and
Jörn Quistorff and
Alfred Wassermann New Results on Codes with Covering
Radius $1$ and Minimum Distance $2$ . . 241--250
Petr Lisonek and
Mahadad Khatirinejad A Family of Complete Caps in ${\rm
PG}(n,2)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--270
Harri Haanpää and
Petteri Kaski The Near Resolvable $2-(13, 4, 3)$
Designs and Thirteen-Player Whist
Tournaments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--285
Gennian GE and
C. W. H. LAM and
Alan C. H. Ling and
others Resolvable Maximum Packings with
Quadruples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--302
Yury J. Ionin and
Hadi Kharaghani A Recursive Construction for New
Symmetric Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 303--310
Stelvio Cimato and
Roberto De Prisco and
Alfredo De Santis Optimal Colored Threshold Visual
Cryptography Schemes . . . . . . . . . . 311--335
D. Luyckx and
J. A. Thas Trialities and $1$-Systems of $Q^+(7,q)$ 337--352
S. G. Barwick and
Wen-Ai Jackson and
Keith M. Martin A General Approach to Robust Web
Metering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--27
John C. Galati On the Non-existence of Semiregular
Relative Difference Sets in Groups with
All Sylow Subgroups Cyclic . . . . . . . 29--31
Mathieu Ciet and
Marc Joye Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems in the
Presence of Permanent and Transient
Faults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--43
Carl Bracken and
Gary Mcguire Characterization of SDP Designs That
Yield Certain Spin Models . . . . . . . 45--52
Iuon-Chang Lin and
Min-Shiang Hwang and
Chin-Chen Chang The General Pay-Word: A Micro-payment
Scheme Based on $n$-dimension One-way
Hash Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--67
J. Löfvenberg Binary Fingerprinting Codes . . . . . . 69--81
L. Ji and
D. Wu and
L. Zhu Existence of Generalized Steiner Systems
$\mathrm{GS}(2,4,\nu,2)$ . . . . . . . . 83--99
J. Eisfeld and
L. Storme and
P. Sziklai On the Spectrum of the Sizes of Maximal
Partial Line Spreads in
$\mathrm{PG}(2n,q), n \geq 3$ . . . . . 101--110
J. De Kaey On a More General Characterisation of
Steiner Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--129
P. Langevin and
J.-P. Zanotti Nonlinearity of Some Invariant Boolean
Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--146
F. L. Chiera Type II Codes over , Invariant Rings and
Theta Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--158
Shenglin Zhou Block Primitive $2-(v,k,1)$ Designs
Admitting a Ree Group of Characteristic
Two . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--169
Ka Hin Leung and
Bernhard Schmidt The Field Descent Method . . . . . . . . 171--188
Claude Carlet Concatenating Indicators of Flats for
Designing Cryptographic Functions . . . 189--202
Vikram Jha Local Schur's Lemma and Commutative
Semifields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--216
Manish K. Gupta and
Mahesh C. Bhandari and
Arbind K. Lal On Linear Codes over $\mathbb{Z}_2^s$ 227--244
Ezra Brown and
Bruce T. Myers and
Jerome A. Solinas Hyperelliptic Curves with Compact
Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--261
Keith M. Martin and
Rei Safavi-Naini and
Huaxiong Wang and
Peter R. Wild Distributing the Encryption and
Decryption of a Block Cipher . . . . . . 263--287
E. J. Cheon and
T. Kato and
S. J. Kim Nonexistence of $[n, 5, d]_q$ Codes
Attaining the Griesmer Bound for $q^4 -
2 q^2 - 2 q + 1 \leq d \leq q^4 - 2 q^2
- q$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--299
Juan Manuel Gonzalez Nieto and
Colin Boyd and
Ed Dawson A Public Key Cryptosystem Based On A
Subgroup Membership Problem . . . . . . 301--316
P. Véron Proof of Conjectures on the True
Dimension of Some Binary Goppa Codes . . 317--325
Patric R. J. Östergård Two New Four-Error-Correcting Binary
Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327--329
Stephen D. Cohen Finite Field Elements with Specified
Order and Traces . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--340
Anonymous Volume Table of Contents: Volume 36 . . 341--342
Anka Golemac and
Tanja Vucici\'c and
Josko Mandi\'c One $(96,20,4)$-symmetric Design and
related Nonabelian Difference Sets . . . 5--13
A. J. van Zanten and
I Nengah Suparta On the Construction of Linear $q$-ary
Lexicodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--29
Philippe Langevin and
Pascal Véron On the Non-linearity of Power Functions 31--43
Gerzson Kéri and
Patric R. J. Östergård Bounds for Covering Codes over Large
Alphabets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--60
Alexander A. Davydov and
Giorgio Faina and
Fernanda Pambianco Constructions of Small Complete Caps in
Binary Projective Spaces . . . . . . . . 61--80
John Malone-Lee Signcryption with Non-interactive
Non-repudiation . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--109
Masaaki Homma and
Seon Jeong Kim Toward the Determination of the Minimum
Distance of Two--Point Codes on a
Hermitian Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--132
Friederike Brezing and
Annegret Weng Elliptic Curves Suitable for Pairing
Based Cryptography . . . . . . . . . . . 133--141
B. Tayfeh-Rezaie On the Existence of Large Sets of
$t$-designs of Prime Sizes . . . . . . . 143--149
R. Ahlswede and
H. Aydinian and
L. H. Khachatrian Forbidden (0,1)-vectors in Hyperplanes
of $\mathbb{R}^n$: The unrestricted case 151--167
Miin Huey Ang and
Siu Lun Ma Symmetric Weighing Matrices Constructed
using Group Matrices . . . . . . . . . . 195--210
Jürgen Bierbrauer and
Yves Edel A Family of Binary $(t, m, s)$-Nets of
Strength $5$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--214
G. B. Belyavskaya and
V. I. Izbash and
G. L. Mullen Check Character Systems using
Quasigroups: I . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--227
R. Safavi-naini and
C. Charnes MRD Hashing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229--242
K. T. Phelps and
J. Rif\`a and
M. Villanueva Kernels and $p$-Kernels of $p^r$-ary
1-Perfect Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--261
Bart De Bruyn Slim Near Polygons . . . . . . . . . . . 263--280
Jianxing Yin Cyclic Difference Packing and Covering
Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--292
Chihiro Suetake The Classification of Symmetric
Transversal Designs STD$_4[12;3]$'s . . 293--304
Antonino Giorgio Spera Asymptotically Good Codes from
Generalized Algebraic--Geometry Codes 305--312
John P. Mcsorley Double Arrays, Triple Arrays and
Balanced Grids with $v = r + c - 1$ . . 313--318
S. G. Barwick and
Wen-AI Jackson An Optimal Multisecret Threshold Scheme
Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--389
A. YA. Dorofeev and
L. S. Kazarin and
V. M. Sidelnikov and
M. E. Tuzhilin Matrix Groups Related to the Quaternion
Group and Spherical Orbit Codes . . . . 391--404
G. B. Belyavskaya and
V. I. Izbash and
G. L. Mullen Check Character Systems Using
Quasigroups: II . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--419
E. J. Cheon and
T. Kato and
S. J. Kim On the Minimum Length of some Linear
Codes of Dimension $5$ . . . . . . . . . 421--434
A. Wispelaere and
H. Maldeghem Codes from Generalized Hexagons . . . . 435--448
Claude Carlet and
Joseph L. Yucas Piecewise Constructions of Bent and
Almost Optimal Boolean Functions . . . . 449--464
T. Aaron Gulliver and
Masaaki Harada and
Takuji Nishimura and
Patric R. J. Östergård Near-Extremal Formally Self-Dual Even
Codes of Lengths $24$ and $32$ . . . . . 465--471
Gretchen L. Matthews Weierstrass Semigroups and Codes from a
Quotient of the Hermitian Curve . . . . 473--492
Omran Ahmadi and
Alfred Menezes On the Number of Trace-One Elements in
Polynomial Bases for $\mathbb{F}_2^n$ 493--507
Jens-Matthias Bohli and
Rainer Steinwandt and
María Isabel González Vasco and
Consuelo Martínez Weak Keys in MST$_1$ . . . . . . . . . . 509--524
Masaaki Harada Self-Orthogonal $3-(56,12,65)$ Designs
and Extremal Doubly-Even Self-Dual Codes
of Length $56$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--16
Mehmet Ozen and
Irfan Siap Linear Codes over $\mathbb{F}_q[u] /
(u^s)$ with Respect to the
Rosenbloom--Tsfasman Metric . . . . . . 17--29
T. L. Alderson $(6,3)$-MDS Codes over an Alphabet of
Size $4$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--40
Jean-Sébastien Coron and
David Naccache and
Yvo Desmedt and
Andrew Odlyzko and
Julien P. Stern Index Calculation Attacks on RSA
Signature and Encryption . . . . . . . . 41--53
Masaaki Homma and
Seon Jeong Kim The Two-Point Codes on a Hermitian Curve
with the Designed Minimum Distance . . . 55--81
L. Ji Asymptotic Determination of the Last
Packing Number of Quadruples . . . . . . 83--95
Steven T. Dougherty and
T. Aaron. Gulliver and
Manabu Oura Higher Weights for Ternary and
Quaternary Self-Dual Codes . . . . . . . 97--112
Michel Lavrauw Sublines of Prime Order Contained in the
Set of Internal Points of a Conic . . . 113--123
Olof Heden A Full Rank Perfect Code of Length $31$ 125--129
Simeon Ball and
Patrick Govaerts and
Leo Storme On Ovoids of Parabolic Quadrics . . . . 131--145
Wilfried Meidl and
Arne Winterhof Some Notes on the Linear Complexity of
Sidel'nikov--Lempel--Cohn--Eastman
Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--178
Frank de Clerck and
Stefaan de Winter and
Elisabeth Kuijken and
Cristina Tonesi Distance-Regular $(0, \alpha)$-Reguli 179--194
Sara Cauchie A Characterization of the Complement of
a Hyperbolic Quadric in ${\rm PG}(3,q)$,
for $q$ Odd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--208
Michael Scott and
Paulo S. L. M. Barreto Generating More MNT Elliptic Curves . . 209--217
Gwoboa Horng and
Tzungher Chen and
Du-shiau Tsai Cheating in Visual Cryptography . . . . 219--236
Ari Juels and
Madhu Sudan A Fuzzy Vault Scheme . . . . . . . . . . 237--257
D. R. Stinson Some Observations on the Theory of
Cryptographic Hash Functions . . . . . . 259--277
Khoongming Khoo and
Guang Gong and
Douglas R. Stinson A New Characterization of Semi-bent and
Bent Functions on Finite Fields* . . . . 279--295
Eric Merchant Exponentially Many Hadamard Designs . . 297--308
Norifumi Kamiya and
Marc P. C. Fossorier Quasi-Cyclic Codes from a Finite Affine
Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--329
Petri Rosendahl A Generalization of Niho's Theorem . . . 331--336
San Ling and
Harald Niederreiter and
Patrick Solé On the Algebraic Structure of
Quasi-cyclic Codes IV: Repeated Roots 337--361
Vince Grolmusz Co-Orthogonal Codes . . . . . . . . . . 363--372
Jinhua Wang A New Class of Optimal $3$-splitting
Authentication Codes . . . . . . . . . . 373--381
Annegret Weng A Low-Memory Algorithm for Point
Counting on Picard Curves . . . . . . . 383--393
Omran Ahmadi Self-Reciprocal Irreducible Pentanomials
Over $\mathbb{F}_2$ . . . . . . . . . . 395--397
Benjamin Arazi Communication-Computation Trade-off in
Executing ECDSA in a Contactless
Smartcard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--415
Jeremy Dover Subregular Spreads of Hermitian Unitals 5--15
Mahdad Khatirinejad and
Petr Lisonek Classification and Constructions of
Complete Caps in Binary Spaces . . . . . 17--31
A. Cossidente and
A. Siciliano The Automorphism Group of Plane
Algebraic Curves with Singer
Automorphisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--37
Tao Feng and
Yanxun Chang Existence of Z-cyclic ${\rm 3PTWh}(p)$
for any Prime $p \equiv 1$ (mod $4$) . . 39--49
Agnes D. Garciano and
Yutaka Hiramine and
Takeo Yokonuma On Relative Difference Sets in Dihedral
Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--63
Steven T. Dougherty and
Young Ho Park Codes Over the $p$-adic Integers . . . . 65--80
S. De Winter and
K. Thas Generalized Quadrangles with an Abelian
Singer Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--87
Barbara Masucci Sharing Multiple Secrets: Models,
Schemes and Analysis . . . . . . . . . . 89--111
Igor E. Shparlinski On RSA Moduli with Prescribed Bit
Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--122
Steven T. Dougherty and
San Ling Cyclic Codes Over $\mathbb{Z}_4$ of Even
Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--153
Hassan Aly and
Arne Winterhof On the Linear Complexity Profile of
Nonlinear Congruential Pseudorandom
Number Generators with Dickson
Polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--162
Michael Giudici Codes with a Certain Weight-preserving
Transitive Group of Automorphisms . . . 163--172
Kejun Chen and
Ruizhong Wei Super-simple $(\nu, 5, 5)$ Designs . . . 173--187
Mathieu Ciet and
Marc Joye and
Kristin Lauter and
Peter L. Montgomery Trading Inversions for Multiplications
in Elliptic Curve Cryptography . . . . . 189--206
Gilberto Bini A-Codes from Rational Functions over
Galois Rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--214
Cem Güneri and
Ferruh Özbudak Improvements on Generalized Hamming
Weights of Some Trace Codes . . . . . . 215--231
Gilles Piret Luby--Rackoff Revisited: On the Use of
Permutations as Inner Functions of a
Feistel Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--245
Dean Crnkovi\'c A Series of Regular Hadamard Matrices 247--251
Marten Van Dijk and
Dwaine Clarke and
Blaise Gassend and
G. Edward Suh and
Srinivas Devadas Speeding up Exponentiation using an
Untrusted Computational Resource . . . . 253--273
M. R. Darafsheh Designs from the Group ${\rm PSL}_2(q)$,
$q$ Even . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--316
Sergey V. Avgustinovich and
Olof Heden and
Faina I. Solov'eva On Intersection Problem for Perfect
Binary Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--322
Jan De Beule and
Leo Storme Blocking All Generators of $Q^+(2 n +
1,3)$, $n \geq 4$ . . . . . . . . . . . 323--333
Jen-Chun Chang New Algorithms of Distance-Increasing
Mappings from Binary Vectors to
Permutations by Swaps . . . . . . . . . 335--345
Samuel Maffre A Weak Key Test for Braid Based
Cryptography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--373
Masaaki Homma and
Seon Jeong Kim The Two-Point Codes with the Designed
Distance on a Hermitian Curve in Even
Characteristic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375--386
Katie M. O'Brien and
Patrick Fitzpatrick Bounds on Codes Derived by Counting
Components in Varshamov Graphs . . . . . 387--396
Angela Aguglia and
Massimo Giulietti Blocking Sets of Certain Line Sets
Related to a Conic . . . . . . . . . . . 397--405
Masaaki Homma and
Seon Jeong Kim The Complete Determination of the
Minimum Distance of Two-Point Codes on a
Hermitian Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--24
Peter J. Grabner and
Clemens Heuberger On the Number of Optimal Base $2$
Representations of Integers . . . . . . 25--39
Deepak Kumar Dalai and
Subhamoy Maitra and
Sumanta Sarkar Basic Theory in Construction of Boolean
Functions with Maximum Possible
Annihilator Immunity . . . . . . . . . . 41--58
François Rodier Asymptotic Nonlinearity of Boolean
Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--70
Claude Carlet and
Cunsheng Ding and
Harald Niederreiter Authentication Schemes from Highly
Nonlinear Functions . . . . . . . . . . 71--79
Hiroki Koga and
Etsuyo Ueda Basic Properties of the
$(t,n)$-Threshold Visual Secret Sharing
Scheme with Perfect Reconstruction of
Black Pixels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--102
Javier Herranz and
Germán Sáez Distributed Ring Signatures from General
Dual Access Structures . . . . . . . . . 103--120
Anthony B. Evans Latin Squares without Orthogonal Mates 121--130
Ian M. Wanless and
Bridget S. Webb The Existence of Latin Squares without
Orthogonal Mates . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--135
Yen-Ying Huang and
Shi-Chun Tsai and
Hsin-Lung Wu On the Construction of Permutation
Arrays via Mappings from Binary Vectors
to Permutations . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--155
Cunsheng Ding and
Jianxing Yin A Construction of Optimal Constant
Composition Codes . . . . . . . . . . . 157--165
Yanxun Chang and
Cunsheng Ding Constructions of External Difference
Families and Disjoint Difference
Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--185
Octavio Páez Osuna There are $1239$ Steiner Triple Systems
${\rm STS}(31)$ of $2$-rank $27$ . . . . 187--190
Shoulun Long and
Josef Pieprzyk and
Huaxiong Wang and
Duncan S. Wong Generalised Cumulative Arrays in Secret
Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--209
R. J. R. Abel and
F. E. Bennett The Existence of $(\nu, 6,
\lambda)$-Perfect Mendelsohn Designs
with $\lambda > 1$ . . . . . . . . . . . 211--224
Mike J. Grannell and
Terry S. Griggs and
Anne Penfold Street A Flaw in the Use of Minimal Defining
Sets for Secret Sharing Schemes . . . . 225--236
Andreas Faldum and
Julio Lafuente and
Gustavo Ochoa and
Wolfgang Willems Error Probabilities for Bounded Distance
Decoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237--252
Mausumi Bose and
Rahul Mukerjee Optimal $(2,n)$ visual cryptographic
schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--267
Brendan D. McKay and
Jeanette C. McLeod and
Ian M. Wanless The number of transversals in a Latin
square . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--284
Christopher Wolf and
An Braeken and
Bart Preneel On the security of stepwise triangular
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--302
Gennian Ge and
Ying Miao and
L. Zhu GOB designs for authentication codes
with arbitration . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--317
Olof Heden and
Martin Hessler On the classification of perfect codes:
side class structures . . . . . . . . . 319--333
David G. Glynn and
Johannes G. Maks and
Rey Casse The polynomial degree of the
Grassmannian $G(1,n,q)$ of lines in
finite projective space ${\rm PG}(n,q)$ 335--341
Sean V. Droms and
Keith E. Mellinger and
Chris Meyer LDPC codes generated by conics in the
classical projective plane . . . . . . . 343--356
Peter Horak and
Bader F. AlBdaiwi Fast decoding of quasi-perfect Lee
distance codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357--367
Hassan Aly and
Arne Winterhof On the $k$-error linear complexity over
$\mathbb{F}_p$ of Legendre and
Sidelnikov sequences . . . . . . . . . . 369--374
Rei Safavi-Naini and
Huaxiong Wang Secret sharing schemes with partial
broadcast channels . . . . . . . . . . . 5--22
Julien Moncel Constructing codes identifying sets of
vertices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23--31
Charles J. Colbourn and
Sosina S. Martirosyan and
Tran Van Trung and
Robert A. Walker Roux-type constructions for covering
arrays of strengths three and four . . . 33--57
Iliya Bouyukliev and
Veerle Fack and
Wolfgang Willems and
Joost Winne Projective two-weight codes with small
parameters and their corresponding
graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--78
Peter Keevash and
Cheng Yeaw Ku A random construction for permutation
codes and the covering radius . . . . . 79--86
Vince Grolmusz Pairs of codes with prescribed Hamming
distances and coincidences . . . . . . . 87--99
Stefka Bouyuklieva and
Patric R. J. Östergård New constructions of optimal self-dual
binary codes of length $54$ . . . . . . 101--109
K. T. Arasu and
Ka Hin Leung and
Siu Lun Ma and
Ali Nabavi and
D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri Circulant weighing matrices of weight
$2^{2 t}$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--123
Vikram Jha and
Norman L. Johnson Subregular planes admitting elations . . 125--145
Marcelo Muniz Isometric embeddings of $\mathbb{Z}_p^k$
in the Hamming space $\mathbb{F}_p^N$
and $\mathbb{Z}_p^k$-linear codes . . . 147--152
Robert F. Bailey Uncoverings-by-bases for base-transitive
permutation groups . . . . . . . . . . . 153--176
Zhenfu Cao and
Gennian Ge and
Ying Miao Combinatorial characterizations of
one-coincidence frequency-hopping
sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--184
Stefko Miklavic and
Primoz Potocnik Distance-transitive dihedrants . . . . . 185--193
Carl Bracken and
Gary McGuire and
Harold Ward New quasi-symmetric designs constructed
using mutually orthogonal Latin squares
and Hadamard matrices . . . . . . . . . 195--198
C. Galindo and
M. Sanchis Evaluation codes and plane valuations 199--219
Lihua Liu and
Hao Shen Explicit constructions of separating
hash families from algebraic curves over
finite fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--233
Steven T. Dougherty and
T. Aaron Gulliver and
John Wong Self-dual codes over $\mathbb{Z}_8$ and
$\mathbb{Z}_9$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--249
Takehiro Hasegawa and
Shoichi Kondo and
Hidekazu Kurusu A sequence of one-point codes from a
tower of function fields . . . . . . . . 251--267
Jun Shen and
Hao Shen Embeddings of resolvable group divisible
designs with block size $3$ . . . . . . 269--298
Soonhak Kwon and
Chang Hoon Kim and
Chun Pyo Hong Sparse polynomials, redundant bases,
Gauss periods, and efficient
exponentiation of primitive elements for
small characteristic finite fields . . . 299--306
Ali Miri and
Monica Nevins and
Terasan Niyomsataya Applications of representation theory to
wireless communications . . . . . . . . 307--318
Carl Bracken New classes of self-complementary codes
and quasi-symmetric designs . . . . . . 319--323
Pascal O. Vontobel and
Ashwin Ganesan On universally decodable matrices for
space-time coding . . . . . . . . . . . 325--342
Ferruh Özbudak and
Zülfükar Saygi Some constructions of systematic
authentication codes using Galois rings 343--357
Andrea Blunck and
Hans Havlicek and
Corrado Zanella Lifting of divisible designs . . . . . . 1--14
Chong-Dao Lee and
Yaotsu Chang and
Trieu-Kien Truong A result on the weight distributions of
binary quadratic residue codes . . . . . 15--20
Peter Roelse The design of composite permutations
with applications to DES-like S-boxes 21--42
Nevine Ebeid and
M. Anwar Hasan On binary signed digit representations
of integers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--65
Simon Litsyn and
Beniamin Mounits Improved lower bounds on sizes of
single-error correcting codes . . . . . 67--72
Jon-Lark Kim and
Keith E. Mellinger and
Leo Storme Small weight codewords in LDPC codes
defined by (dual) classical generalized
quadrangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--92
Naoki Chigira and
Masaaki Harada and
Masaaki Kitazume Extremal self-dual codes of length $64$
through neighbors and covering radii . . 93--101
Antonio Cossidente and
Giuseppe Marino Veronese embedding and two-character
sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--107
Bessie C. Hu and
Duncan S. Wong and
Zhenfeng Zhang and
Xiaotie Deng Certificateless signature: a new
security model and an improved generic
construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--126
Jürgen Bierbrauer A direct approach to linear programming
bounds for codes and tms-nets . . . . . 127--143
Sanjeevani Gharge and
Sharad Sane Quasi-affine symmetric designs . . . . . 145--166
Amir J. Salomon and
Ofer Amrani Reed--Muller codes and Barnes--Wall
lattices: Generalized multilevel
constructions and representation over
${\rm GF}(2^q)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--180
Wilfried Meidl and
Ayineedi Venkateswarlu Remarks on the $k$-error linear
complexity of $p^n$-periodic sequences 181--193
Maura Paterson Sliding-window dynamic frameproof codes 195--212
S. González and
C. Martínez and
I. F. Rúa Symplectic spread-based generalized
Kerdock codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--226
Dongvu Tonien and
Reihaneh Safavi-Naini Construction of deletion correcting
codes using generalized Reed--Solomon
codes and their subcodes . . . . . . . . 227--237
Paulo S. L. M. Barreto and
Steven D. Galbraith and
Colm Ó'hÉigeartaigh and
Michael Scott Efficient pairing computation on
supersingular Abelian varieties . . . . 239--271
Taher Abualrub and
Irfan Siap Cyclic codes over the rings $Z_2 + u
Z_2$ and $Z_2 + u Z_2 + u^2 Z_2$ . . . . 273--287
Eimear Byrne and
Marcus Greferath and
Michael E. O'Sullivan The linear programming bound for codes
over finite Frobenius rings . . . . . . 289--301
Valentina Pepe LDPC codes from the Hermitian curve . . 303--315
Maura Paterson Sequential and dynamic frameproof codes 317--326
Gerardo Vega and
Jacques Wolfmann New classes of $2$-weight cyclic codes 327--334
Thomas Westerbäck Maximal partial packings of $Z_2^n$ with
perfect codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335--355
Shane Kelly Constructions of intriguing sets of
polar spaces from field reduction and
derivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
Fang-Wei Fu and
Shu-Tao Xia The characterization of binary constant
weight codes meeting the bound of Fu and
Shen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--20
Nikias De Feyter Classification of $(0,2)$-geometries
embedded in ${\rm AG}(3,q)$ . . . . . . 21--32
Andrea Caggegi and
Giovanni Falcone On $2-(n^2, 2 n, 2n-1)$ designs with
three intersection numbers . . . . . . . 33--40
Sabine Giese and
Ralph-Hardo Schulz Divisible designs with dual translation
group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--45
Tetsuya Izu and
Jun Kogure and
Takeshi Koshiba and
Takeshi Shimoyama Low-density attack revisited . . . . . . 47--59
Aggelos Kiayias and
Moti Yung Cryptanalyzing the
polynomial-reconstruction based
public-key system under optimal
parameter choice . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--78
Jonathan Jedwab and
Matthew G. Parker There are no Barker arrays having more
than two dimensions . . . . . . . . . . 79--84
I. Gashkov and
J. A. O. Ekberg and
D. Taub A geometric approach to finding new
lower bounds of $A(n, d, w)$ . . . . . . 85--91
Ji-Woong Jang and
Jong-Seon No and
Habong Chung Butson Hadamard matrices with partially
cyclic core . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--101
John Arhin On the structure of $1$-designs with at
most two block intersection numbers . . 103--114
Lijun Ji A construction for large sets of
disjoint Kirkman triple systems . . . . 115--122
E. J. Cheon and
T. Maruta On the minimum length of some linear
codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--135
Maria Bras-Amorós Algebraic-geometry codes, one-point
codes, and evaluation codes . . . . . . 137--145
Bahattin Yildiz Weights modulo $p^e$ of linear codes
over rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--165
Wen-Ai Jackson and
S. Murphy Projective aspects of the AES inversion 167--179
Dina Ghinelli and
James Hirschfeld and
Dieter Jungnickel Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
J. A. Thas The uniqueness of $1$-systems of
$W_5(q)$ satisfying the BLT-property,
with $q$ odd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--10
P. J. Cameron and
A. Rudvalis A design and a geometry for the group
${\rm Fi}_{22}$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--14
Gary L. Ebert and
Keith E. Mellinger Mixed partitions and related designs . . 15--23
Alan R. Prince A translation plane of order $19^2$
admitting ${\rm SL}(2,5)$, obtained by
$12$-nest replacement . . . . . . . . . 25--30
Antonio Pasini A characterization of truncated
projective geometries as flag-transitive
${\rm PG}^*.{\rm PG}$-geometries . . . . 31--38
Guglielmo Lunardon Simplectic spreads and finite semifields 39--48
Guobiao Weng and
Weisheng Qiu and
Zeying Wang and
Qing Xiang Pseudo-Paley graphs and skew Hadamard
difference sets from presemifields . . . 49--62
Simeon Ball and
Michel Lavrauw On the Hughes--Kleinfeld and Knuth's
semifields two-dimensional over a weak
nucleus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--67
M. Biliotti and
V. Jha and
N. L. Johnson and
A. Montinaro Translation planes of order $q^2$
admitting a two-transitive orbit of
length $q + 1$ on the line at infinity 69--86
Michael Dewar and
Lucia Moura and
Daniel Panario and
Brett Stevens and
Qiang Wang Division of trinomials by pentanomials
and orthogonal arrays . . . . . . . . . 1--17
Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez and
Guillermo Morales-Luna and
Nazar A. Saqib and
Nareli Cruz-Cortés Parallel Itoh--Tsujii multiplicative
inversion algorithm for a special class
of trinomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--37
Lijun Ji Constructions for large sets of
$L$-intersecting Steiner triple systems 39--49
Morteza Esmaeili and
Morteza Hivadi $G$-projectable and
$\Lambda$-projectable binary linear
block codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--64
Yu Xiong and
Jun Ma and
Hao Shen On optimal codes with $w$-identifiable
parent property . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--90
Esa Antero Seuranen New lower bounds for multiple coverings 91--94
Susan G. Barwick and
Wen-Ai Jackson A sequence approach to linear perfect
hash families . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--121
I. Landjev and
L. Storme A weighted version of a result of Hamada
on minihypers and on linear codes
meeting the Griesmer bound . . . . . . . 123--138
Xiande Zhang and
Gennian Ge Existence of $Z$-cyclic ${\rm
3PDTWh}(p)$ for Prime $p \equiv 1$ (mod
$4$) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--155
Gennian Ge and
Rolf Rees and
Nabil Shalaby Kirkman frames having hole type $h^u
m^1$ for small $h$ . . . . . . . . . . . 157--184
Haitao Cao and
Lijun Ji and
Lie Zhu Constructions for generalized Steiner
systems ${\rm GS}(3, 4, v, 2)$ . . . . . 185--197
Jaime Gutierrez and
Álvar Ibeas Inferring sequences produced by a linear
congruential generator on elliptic
curves missing high-order bits . . . . . 199--212
Tsvetan Asamov and
Nuh Aydin A search algorithm for linear codes:
progressive dimension growth . . . . . . 213--217
E. Martínez-Moro and
I. F. Rúa On repeated-root multivariable codes
over a finite chain ring . . . . . . . . 219--227
Ron Shaw The $\psi$-associate $X^\#$ of a flat
$X$ in ${\rm PG}(n, 2)$ . . . . . . . . 229--246
Jon-Lark Kim and
Yoonjin Lee Construction of MDS self-dual codes over
Galois rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247--258
Csaba Mengyán On the number of pairwise non-isomorphic
minimal blocking sets in ${\rm PG}(2,
q)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259--267
Eimear Byrne and
Marcus Greferath and
Michael E. O'Sullivan Errata for ``The linear programming
bound for codes over finite Frobenius
rings'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--270
Nevine Maurice Ebeid and
M. Anwar Hasan On $\tau$-adic representations of
integers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--296
San Ling and
Ferruh Özbudak Constructions and bounds on linear
error-block codes . . . . . . . . . . . 297--316
Ki Hyoung Ko and
Jang Won Lee and
Tony Thomas Towards generating secure keys for braid
cryptography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--333
Radka Russeva and
Nikolay Yankov On binary self-dual codes of lengths
$60$, $62$, $64$ and $66$ having an
automorphism of order $9$ . . . . . . . 335--346
D. R. Stinson Generalized mix functions and orthogonal
equitable rectangles . . . . . . . . . . 347--357
Cícero Carvalho and
Takao Kato Codes from curves with total inflection
points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--364
Gert Monstad Hana and
Trygve Johnsen Scroll codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--377
Koji Momihara Necessary and sufficient conditions for
tight equi-difference conflict-avoiding
codes of weight three . . . . . . . . . 379--390
Jinhua Wang A new class of optimal $3$-splitting
authentication codes . . . . . . . . . . 391--391
Jinhua Wang and
Hao Shen Existence of $(v,K_{1(3)} \cup
\{w^*\})$-PBDs and its applications . . 1--16
Vitaly Skachek and
Ron M. Roth Probabilistic algorithm for finding
roots of linearized polynomials . . . . 17--23
Veerle Fack and
Szabolcs L. Fancsali and
L. Storme and
Geetrui Van de Voorde and
Joost Winne Small weight codewords in the codes
arising from Desarguesian projective
planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--43
Olof Heden On perfect $p$-ary codes of length $p +
1$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--56
Wilfried Meidl Reducing the calculation of the linear
complexity of $u 2^v$-periodic binary
sequences to Games--Chan algorithm . . . 57--65
Weiming Zhang and
Shiqu Li A coding problem in steganography . . . 67--81
James A. Davis and
Laurent Poinsot $G$-Perfect nonlinear functions . . . . 83--96
Sosina Martirosyan and
Tran van Trung Explicit constructions for perfect hash
families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--112
Cunsheng Ding and
Tao Feng Codebooks from almost difference sets 113--126
Norman L. Johnson $m$th-Root subgeometry partitions . . . 127--136
Boris Skori\'c and
Stefan Katzenbeisser and
Mehmet U. Celik Symmetric Tardos fingerprinting codes
for arbitrary alphabet sizes . . . . . . 137--166
Vito Abatangelo and
Bambina Larato Elliptic near-MDS codes over
$\mathbb{F}_5$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--174
Thomas Britz and
Keisuke Shiromoto Designs from subcode supports of linear
codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--189
Gerzson Kéri The covering radius of extreme binary
$2$-surjective codes . . . . . . . . . . 191--198
Alessandro Montinaro On the Ree Unital . . . . . . . . . . . 199--209
Jianxing Yin and
Jie Yan and
Chengmin Wang Generalized balanced tournament designs
and related codes . . . . . . . . . . . 211--230
Antonio Cossidente and
Nicola Durante and
Giuseppe Marino and
Tim Penttila and
Alessandro Siciliano The geometry of some two-character sets 231--241
Aaron Potechin Maximal caps in ${\rm AG}(6, 3)$ . . . . 243--259
Giorgio Donati and
Nicola Durante On the intersection of two subgeometries
of ${\rm PG}(n, q)$ . . . . . . . . . . 261--267
Jürgen Bierbrauer and
Gohar M. Kyureghyan Crooked binomials . . . . . . . . . . . 269--301
Maria Cristeta Cuaresma and
Michael Giudici and
Cheryl E. Praeger Homogeneous factorisations of Johnson
graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303--327
Berkant Ustaoglu Obtaining a secure and efficient key
agreement protocol from (H)MQV and NAXOS 329--342
W. H. Holzmann and
H. Kharaghani and
B. Tayfeh-Rezaie Williamson matrices up to order $59$ . . 343--352
Nicholas Kolokotronis Cryptographic properties of nonlinear
pseudorandom number generators . . . . . 353--363
John Polhill New negative Latin square type partial
difference sets in nonelementary abelian
$2$-groups and $3$-groups . . . . . . . 365--377
A. Blokhuis and
J. W. P. Hirschfeld and
D. Jungnickel and
J. A. Thas Finite geometries . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
S. De Winter Non-isomorphic semipartial geometries 3--9
Andrea Blunck and
Hans Havlicek and
Corrado Zanella Divisible designs from twisted dual
numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--20
J. De Beule and
A. Klein and
K. Metsch and
L. Storme Partial ovoids and partial spreads in
Hermitian polar spaces . . . . . . . . . 21--34
B. N. Cooperstein and
B. De Bruyn The combinatorial properties of the
hyperplanes of ${\rm DW}(5, q)$ arising
from embedding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--51
A. De Wispelaere and
H. Van Maldeghem Regular partitions of (weak) finite
generalized polygons . . . . . . . . . . 53--73
Kris Coolsaet A $51$-dimensional embedding of the
Ree--Tits generalized octagon . . . . . 75--97
Cheryl E. Praeger and
Shenglin Zhou Classification of line-transitive
point-imprimitive linear spaces with
line size at most $12$ . . . . . . . . . 99--111
T. L. Alderson and
A. A. Bruen Coprimitive sets and inextendable codes 113--124
Yves Edel Sequences in abelian groups $G$ of odd
order without zero-sum subsequences of
length $\exp(G)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--134
Eimear Byrne and
Marcus Greferath and
Thomas Honold Ring geometries, two-weight codes, and
strongly regular graphs . . . . . . . . 1--16
Dameng Deng and
Rolf Rees and
Hao Shen On the existence of nearly Kirkman
triple systems with subsystems . . . . . 17--33
Landang Yuan and
Qingde Kang Another construction for large sets of
Kirkman triple systems . . . . . . . . . 35--42
Sunghyu Han and
Jon-Lark Kim On self-dual codes over $\mathbb{F}_5$ 43--58
L. Ji $2$-idempotent $3$-quasigroups with a
conjugate invariant subgroup consisting
of a single cycle of length four . . . . 59--68
A. D. Blinco and
S. I. El-Zanati and
G. F. Seelinger and
P. A. Sissokho and
L. E. Spence and
C. Vanden Eynden On vector space partitions and uniformly
resolvable designs . . . . . . . . . . . 69--77
Oded Blayer and
Tamir Tassa Improved versions of Tardos'
fingerprinting scheme . . . . . . . . . 79--103
Koen Thas Note on the existence of translation
nets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--107
Cunsheng Ding and
Tor Helleseth and
Òyvind Ytrehus Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--110
Zihui Liu and
Wende Chen and
Yuan Luo The relative generalized Hamming weight
of linear $q$-ary codes and their
subcodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--123
Shu-Tao Xia and
Fang-Wei Fu Undetected error probability of $q$-ary
constant weight codes . . . . . . . . . 125--140
Khmaies Ouahada and
Theo G. Swart and
Hendrik C. Ferreira and
Ling Cheng Binary permutation sequences as subsets
of Levenshtein codes, spectral null
codes, run-length limited codes and
constant weight codes . . . . . . . . . 141--154
Radinka Yorgova and
Alfred Wassermann Binary self-dual codes with
automorphisms of order $23$ . . . . . . 155--164
Gerzson Kéri and
Patric R. J. Östergård On the minimum size of binary codes with
length $2R + 4$ and covering radius $R$ 165--169
Ernst M. Gabidulin Attacks and counter-attacks on the GPT
public key cryptosystem . . . . . . . . 171--177
Constanza Riera and
Stéphane Jacob and
Matthew G. Parker From graph states to two-graph states 179--206
A. J. van Zanten and
Loeky Haryanto Sets of disjoint snakes based on a
Reed--Muller code and covering the
hypercube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--229
Michel Lavrauw and
Leo Storme and
Geertrui Van de Voorde On the code generated by the incidence
matrix of points and hyperplanes in
${\rm PG}(n, q)$ and its dual . . . . . 231--245
Jong Yoon Hyun and
Hyun Kwang Kim Maximum distance separable poset codes 247--261
Alan R. Prince Further translation planes of order
$19^2$ admitting ${\rm SL}(2,5)$,
obtained by nest replacement . . . . . . 263--267
Andreas Klein Attacks on the RC4 stream cipher . . . . 269--286
Hans Ludwig de Vries On orthogonal resolutions of the
classical Steiner quadruple system ${\rm
SQS}(16)$ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--292
Zheng Gong and
Xuejia Lai and
Kefei Chen A synthetic indifferentiability analysis
of some block-cipher-based hash
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--305
Ulrich Dempwolff and
William M. Kantor Distorting symmetric designs . . . . . . 307--322
Olav Geil On the second weight of generalized
Reed--Muller codes . . . . . . . . . . . 323--330
Jianmin Wang Some combinatorial constructions for
optimal perfect deletion-correcting
codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331--347