Bricklayer function

In cryptography, the bricklayer function is a part of a round function that can be decomposed into identical independent Boolean operations on the partitioned pieces of its input data,² so called bundles.³ The term was introduced by Daemen and Rijmen in 2001.¹

If the underlying function transforming the bundle is nonlinear, it is traditionally called an S-box. If the function is linear, Daemen and Rijmen use for it the term D-box (after diffusion).²

References

Weinmann 2009, p. 36.
Daemen & Rijmen 2013, p. 22.
Daemen & Rijmen 2013, p. 20.

Sources

Daemen, Joan; Rijmen, Vincent (9 March 2013). "Bricklayer Functions". The Design of Rijndael: AES - The Advanced Encryption Standard (PDF). Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 22–23. ISBN 978-3-662-04722-4. OCLC 1259405449.
Weinmann, Ralf-Philipp (2009). Algebraic Methods in Block Cipher Cryptanalysis (PDF) (PhD). Technischen Universität Darmstadt.

[FOOTNOTEWeinmann200936-1] Weinmann 2009, p. 36.

[FOOTNOTEDaemenRijmen201322-2] Daemen & Rijmen 2013, p. 22.

[FOOTNOTEDaemenRijmen201320-3] Daemen & Rijmen 2013, p. 20.

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