Method for permuting data elements and permuting apparatus

摘要

One embodiment describes a method for permuting data elements, comprising receiving a sequence of data elements, and carrying out a plurality of interchange operations each comprising randomly selecting a data element from the data elements in the sequence, interchanging the data element with another data element at a deterministically predefined position in the sequence of data elements, and applying a predefined permutation to the deterministically predefined position or to the sequence of data elements.