Stream Ciphers

In contrast to block ciphers, stream ciphers operate on a plaintext stream instead of blocks. Thus encrypting data results in changing the internal state of the cipher and encryption of plaintext with arbitrary length is possible in one go (in byte amounts). More...

Collaboration diagram for Stream Ciphers:

Modules
	Algorithms
	Algorithms are meant to provide decryption interface similar to STL algorithms' one.

Classes
class	nil::crypto3::stream::chacha< IVBits, KeyBits, Rounds >
	DJB's ChaCha (https://cr.yp.to/chacha.html) More...
class	nil::crypto3::stream::rc4< IVBits, KeyBits, SkipSize >
class	nil::crypto3::stream::salsa20< IVBits, KeyBits, Rounds >

Detailed Description

In contrast to block ciphers, stream ciphers operate on a plaintext stream instead of blocks. Thus encrypting data results in changing the internal state of the cipher and encryption of plaintext with arbitrary length is possible in one go (in byte amounts).