Annihilators of cryptographic Boolean functions have been shown to be closely related to algebraic attacks to stream ciphers.However how to construct annihilators of a given Boolean function remains a hard problem.As an approach to this problem
it gives an important characterization of annihilators with low degrees of a given Boolean function in terms of the set of
x
values on which
f(x)
=0.This gives a way to find annihilators of a given Boolean function
however how to find an annihilator of the lowest algebraic degree still remains unsolved.