The FAQ's 4GiB recommendation

Peter Lebbing peter at digitalbrains.com
Sun Aug 30 11:01:54 CEST 2015


On 27/08/15 23:11, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> For a 64-bit cipher, you'll probably wind up [...]

> A 128-bit cipher will begin to repeat after [...]

I think it's a good idea to stress you're talking about the block size,
not about the key size. Something like "a cipher with a 64 bit block size".

HTH,

Peter.

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