the prominent Carlet–Feng construction as a starting point, we propose a new method to
construct a large number of functions with maximum algebraic immunity. The new method is
based on deriving new properties of minimal codewords of the punctured Reed–Muller code
RM^ ⋆ (⌊ n-1 2 ⌋, n) RM⋆(⌊ n-1 2⌋, n) for any n, allowing—if n is odd—for efficiently
generating large classes of new functions that cannot be obtained by other known …