Searching for Cryptographically Significant Rotation Symmetric Boolean Functions by Designing Heuristic Algorithms

Table 3

Comparison of the nonlinearity of balanced Boolean functions.

Method	8	10	12
	118	480	1984
GA&HC [8, 9]	116	484	1976
SA&HC [10]	116	486	1992
Algorithms 2 and 3	116	488	1996