What is a stream cipher ? what are various stream ciphers?

Answer Posted / ananthakumaran. s

It is one of the ciphering techniques, which encrypts a bit
or one byte of information at a time. The ciphers which
will come under the monoalpabetic ciphers are all the
stream cipher.

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