Which Encryption Method Does An Encrypts On Either Side? And When Is a Block Cipher A Stream Cipher?
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4 min readNov 17, 2021
Introduction
In the encryption process for symmetric key, we normally have one method to encrypt, and then we do the reverse to decrypt. In AES, for example, we perform 10 rounds of scrambling with the encryption key and some salt, and then do the reverse of the either side. The methods…