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From: ark@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: Naieve Inquiry: Streaming Cyphers (?)
Message-ID: <5786@alice.uUCp>
Date: Sun, 13-Jul-86 20:37:36 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 13 20:37:36 1986
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> I am familiar with the internals of the RSA, but not the DES algorithm.  The
> RSA scheme soaks up blocks of plaintext, then spits out blocks of cyphertext.
> Does the DES scheme do the same, or is it able to encrypt one character at a
> time?

DES takes a 56 bits of key and 64 bits of plaintext and
emits 64 bits of cyphertext.