You are old indeed.
I once tried to ask Whit why the NIST competition only wanted block ciphers and not stream ciphers, but I worded the question wrong and the answer was "Because that was what the competition specified". I was embarrassed and didn't correct the question, and he noticed but didn't really have a good reason but clearly thought block ciphers were the only reasonable way. Now we have some excellent well-regarded stream ciphers.
M. Dilger /
npub1ac…9p35c
2023-04-27 00:57:52
in reply to nevent1q…vk9t
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2023-04-27 00:57:52Event JSON
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