Re: Iterated Block CIpher versus Feistel

From: David Wagner (daw_at_taverner.cs.berkeley.edu)
Date: 01/31/05


Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:25:36 +0000 (UTC)

flip wrote:
>It appears that a Feistel cipher (like DES) is claimed different than an
>Iterated Block Cipher (IBC) like AES.

A Feistel cipher is a special kind of iterated block cipher.
All Feistel ciphers are iterated block ciphers, but not all
iterated block ciphers are Feistel ciphers.