A cryptographic transformation is a mapping f from a set of cleartext messages, M, to a set of ciphertext messages. Since for m e M, f(m) should hide the contents of m from an enemy, f-1 should, in a certain technical sense, be difficult to infer from f(m) and public knowledge about f.
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DeMillo et al. (1982) studied this question.
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