July 2002
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
11h 10m
English
Simple stream encryption algorithms generate, based on the key, a stream of octets that are XORed with the plain text octets to produce the cipher text on encryption and with the cipher text octets to produce plain text on decryption. They are normally used for the encryption of data. Thus they are specified by the value of the Algorithm attribute of the EncryptionMethod child of an EncryptedData element. See Figure 18-1.
![]() | It is critical that you use each simple stream encryption key (or key and initialization vector, if an IV is also used) once only. If the same key (or key and IV) is ever used on two messages, ... |
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