Re: Implementing byte stream cipher

Joseph Ashwood <ashwood@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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| "Rob Warnock" <rpw3@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| > Joseph Ashwood <ashwood@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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| > | 1) Any cipher mode becomes weaker after 2^(blockSize/2) blocks...
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| > Typo, perhaps?
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| Nope, that is 2^64*blockSize (blockSize = 128 bits = 16 bytes = 2^4 bytes)...
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Oops! Mea culpa. I saw the "block" in the "2^(blockSize/2)"
but somehow read the "blocks" that followed it as "bytes".
Thanks for the wake-up...


-Rob

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