Quantcast
Channel: Using AES as a Stream Cipher - Information Security Stack Exchange
Browsing index pages (2 articles)
↧

Using AES as a Stream Cipher

I need to send a lot of small messages that are usually between 128 bits and 256 bits long, and each message is encrypted with a separate 128 bit AES key. Therefore, to send each message with the key...

View Article


Answer by Tom Leek for Using AES as a Stream Cipher

CTR mode is about encrypting data by generating a key dependent pseudo-random stream and XORing it with the data; so what you describe really is CTR mode, and you don't have to to the XOR yourself....

View Article

Browsing index pages (2 articles)


Latest Images