Thomas Cusick has 25 years of experience in cryptography, 60 published papers in that subject and 8 Ph. D. students whose thesis work was in that area. He is currently located at the State University of New York in Buffalo, New York. Pantelimon Stanica has more than 15 years of experience in the area of cryptography and Boolean functions, more than 35 papers in this subject and 3 Ph.D. students working in the area. He is currently located at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.