Stream Cipher

Stream Cipher definition - hacker
Belong to a class of symmetric-key encryption algorithms operating on the plaintext one byte (or one bit) at a time.

See Also: Algorithm; Byte; Encryption; Plaintext.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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