[Cryptography] cryptography Digest, Vol 16, Issue 11

[Benjamin Kreuter]

On Thu, 2014-08-14 at 06:22 -0400, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> (There are vaguer hints that they have some similar design
> secrets for stream ciphers:  No public stream cipher has survived
> public attack, but while we don't know how they work internally, NSA
> has continue to field stream ciphers for its own   use, so it
> apparently thinks it can produce secure ones.)

Are you not counting OFB, CTR, or GCM mode as "stream ciphers?"  I do
not see any meaningful distinction there.

-- Ben
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