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What makes the comparison unfair?
by floody-berry 14y ago
What makes the comparison unfair?
- tptacek 14y agoThe other ciphers are natively stream ciphers, and AES is a block cipher adapted via CTR mode to be a stream cipher.
- floody-berry 14y agoI'm still missing what makes it unfair. Are other modes of AES potentially faster? Does AES provide something that stream ciphers don't? Are Salsa20/Chacha20 unable to be compared to anything because they're native stream ciphers that look like a block cipher in CTR mode under the hood?
- tptacek 14y ago1. Yes. 2. Yes. 3. No.