Re: Sun setting on stream ciphers?

From: Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen_at_t-online.de)
Date: 02/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:47:52 +0100

Lassi Hippeläinen wrote:

[snip]
> Stream ciphers are more efficient in terms of bandwidth, because they
> don't need padding bits. Anybody interested in developing a 160 bit
> block cipher for VoIP?

RC6, for example, is flexible in block size. Couldn't it deal
with that?

M. K. Shen

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