Re: Sun setting on stream ciphers?

From: Tom St Denis (tomstdenis_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: 29 Feb 2004 04:05:55 -0800

"Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net> wrote in message news:<rcWdnZv0xfnkGdzdRVn-vw@comcast.com>...
> It has been pointed out before that the distinction
> between "stream cipher" and "block cipher" is rather
> artificial, and that each can be used in the role of
> the other.

Um not really. It's expected that a block cipher act like a PRP. A
stream cipher may be a PRF [e.g. it's time dependent too].

Tom