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Re:NIST may not have you in mind by tptacek on Sunday October 21, 2012 @01:09PM (#4680102)
AES is normally benchmarked against other block ciphers. It might not be fair to compare the performance of a native stream cipher to that of AES rigged up as a stream cipher with CTR.
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Re:NIST may not have you in mind by floody-berry on Monday October 22, 2012 @12:24AM (#4681845)
What makes the comparison unfair?
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Re:NIST may not have you in mind by tptacek on Monday October 22, 2012 @12:19PM (#4683857)
The other ciphers are natively stream ciphers, and AES is a block cipher adapted via CTR mode to be a stream cipher.
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Re:NIST may not have you in mind by floody-berry on Monday October 22, 2012 @06:50PM (#4685963)
I'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?
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Re:NIST may not have you in mind by tptacek on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @11:44PM (#4691544)
1. Yes. 2. Yes. 3. No.
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