I was reading some e-books to understand the basics of block ciphers and how it works in AES. As i understood, Permutation plays a big part in AES and Block Ciphers,
Here is what i understood by permutation,
A permutation is an ordered arrangement of the elements of some set S
Let S = {a, b, c}
c, b, a is a permutation of S
b, c, a is a different permutation of S
Now, There was a power-point slide on Block ciphers i was reading and according to which,
Why did they call it a permutation, Could anyone please explain ?
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adds and removes from to the topmost set. In our previous example of a deck of cards, you'd have to remove some, and replace them with cards from another deck to end up with the same number of cards that are not a permutation of a complete deck of cards. This is however not really a question on scope for Information Security. ;)