the insecurities of Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) based systems, the use of
Nonlinear Feedback Shift Registers (NFSRs) became more popular. In this work, we study
the feedback functions of NFSRs with period 2 n. First, we provide two new necessary
conditions for feedback functions to be maximum length. Then, we consider NFSRs with k-
monomial feedback functions and focus on two extreme cases where k= 4 and k= 2 n-1. We …