DES as a stream cipher

Paul_Koning/US/3Com%3COM at smtp1.isd.3com.com Paul_Koning/US/3Com%3COM at smtp1.isd.3com.com
Tue Apr 23 11:08:03 PDT 1996


The easiest approach (for one thing, easiest to analyze
as far as security issues goes) is counter mode.  See
Scheier, Applied Crypto, second edition, section 9.9.

 paul

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