block vs stream ciphers

[Janusz A. Urbanowicz]

Atom 'Smasher' wrote:
> curious... why doesn't OpenPGP (or GnuPG) include any stream ciphers?

I guess because there any 'enough good' and well (comparably to block 
ciphers) researched stream ciphers out there. And especially free to use 
ones.

alex
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