Information And Network Security (2170709)

BE | Semester-7   Winter-2018 | 19/11/2019

Q1) (a)

Differentiate block cipher and a stream cipher.

Sr. Block Cipher Stream Cipher
1 A block of plain text is treated as whole and used to produce a cipher text block of equal length. It encrypts a datastream one bit or one byte at a time.
2 For Eg. DES Cipher For Eg. Vernam Cipher