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Avalanche Effect

Avalanche Effect

In cryptography, the avalanche effect describes a desirable residence of cryptographic algorithms, usually block ciphers as well as cryptographic hash features. In the scenario of high-quality prohibit ciphers, such a small change in either the true secret or the plaintext should cause a drastic change inside the ciphertext. The actual term was first used by Horst Feistel. however the concept dates here we are at at least Shannon’s diffusion.