Time for a Cha-cha or a Salsa?
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5 min readJul 31, 2018
WEP (as used in wi-fi) gave stream ciphers a bad name, where it broke virtually every rule in the crypto book, and could be cracked, for the whole network, within just a few hours. But stream ciphers work just as well a block ones and are often much faster. Let’s do some Cha-Cha!