Find Better Boolean Functions in the Affine Equivalence Class

The Boolean functions in an affine equivalence class are of the same algebraic degree and nonlinearity, but may satisfy different order of correlation immunity and propagation criterion. A method is presented in this paper to find Boolean functions with higher order correlation immunity or satisfying higher order propagation criterion in an affine equivalence class. 8 AES s-box functions are not better Boolean functions in their affine equivalence class.