Constructions of non-endomorphic perfect ciphers

This work is dealing with constructions of Shannon perfect ciphers (which are absolutely immune against the attack on ciphertext, according to Shannon). Based on the equivalence relation on the set of keys, sufficient conditions are obtained for that the encoding tables of non-endomorphic (endomorphic) perfect ciphers do not contain Latin rectangles (squares). Key equivalence refers to the following: two different keys are equivalent in cipher-value x^ if the cipher-value x^ on these keys is encrypted to the same code designation. In this case, pairwise different keys k₁, k₂, k₃,..., k_n-1, k_n form a cycle of length n if there is such a sequence of cipher-values that: 1) the neighboring cipher-values are different; 2) the keys k₁,k₂,k₃,..., k_n-1, k_n, k₁ are sequentially equivalent in the corresponding cipher-values. If n is an odd number, then the keys k₁,k₂,... ,k_n form an odd-length cycle. It is proved that if the keys k₁,k₂,... ,k_n form an odd-length cycle, then this encoding table does not contain Latin rectangles. Example of such constructions is given.

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