On multiple transitivity for products of sets of permutations. (Q950834)

For some cryptographic applications it is useful to study multiply transitivity of large sets of permutations of a finite set \(\Omega\). It is proposed in this paper to reduce such investigations to the study of products of matrices related to equivalence relations on injective \(\ell\)-tuples of \(\Omega\) which have considerably smaller dimension. Some special cases given by affine groups over finite fields or Galois rings are studied extensively.