COMPUTER ETHICS AND SECURITY
CRYPTOGRAPHY AND ENCRYPTION
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Question
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Which of the following was initially designed as a stream cipher?
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AES
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Blowfish
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RC4
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Twofish
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Ron Rivest invented RC4 in 1987, and it is a stream cipher. Because RC4 is a stream cipher, it encrypts data bytes by bits.
Detailed explanation-2: -Rivest Cipher 4, or RC4, is a stream cipher created in 1987. A stream cipher is a type of cipher that operates on data a byte at a time to encrypt that data.
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