What is a stream cipher ? what are various stream ciphers?
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Answer / ananthakumaran. s
It is one of the ciphering techniques, which encrypts a bit
or one byte of information at a time. The ciphers which
will come under the monoalpabetic ciphers are all the
stream cipher.
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Answer / me
stream ciphers operate on smallest unit of plain text
stream cipher encryts smaller block of data typically bits
or bytes
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