A highly nonlinear substitution-box (S-box) design using action of modular group on a projective line over a finite field

• Nasir Siddiqui,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Basic Sciences, University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan

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• Fahim Yousaf,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Basic Sciences, University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan

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• Fiza Murtaza,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sino-Pak Center for Artificial Intelligence, Pak-Austria Fachhochschule: Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Haripur, Khyber Pakthunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan

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• Muhammad Ehatisham-ul-Haq ,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ehatishamuet@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Computer Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9949-6664

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• M. Usman Ashraf,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Management and Technology (UMT), Lahore (Sialkot), Punjab, Pakistan

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• Ahmed M. Alghamdi,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Software Engineering, College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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• Ahmed S. Alfakeeh

  Roles Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1772-2782

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