{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Mike Dilger ☑️ wrote","author_name":"Mike Dilger ☑️ (npub1ac…9p35c)","author_url":"https://nostr.now/npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.now","html":"You are old indeed.\n\nI once tried to ask Whit why the NIST competition only wanted block ciphers and not stream ciphers, but I worded the question wrong and the answer was \"Because that was what the competition specified\". I was embarrassed and didn't correct the question, and he noticed but didn't really have a good reason but clearly thought block ciphers were the only reasonable way. Now we have some excellent well-regarded stream ciphers."}