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Confusion

May 01, 20261 min read

cryptography

Definition

Confusion

Confusion is the property of a cipher that conceals the relationship between plaintext and ciphertext. The distribution of bytes in the plaintext should be hidden in the ciphertext, and changes to the plaintext should produce unpredictable changes in the ciphertext.


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