The famous Huffman encryption usually produces smaller, but sometimes
bigger ciphertexts. But common algorithms like Triple-ROT13 should keep
the same size! :P

Seriously, smaller isn't possible since you'd lose data (Usually you
can't compress entropy) - And bigger... no one would want to use that
since we have better alternatives which don't bloat the ciphertext. In
some cases you have to add padding till a multiple of the blocksize, but
since it is added to the plaintext they still remain the same size.
Asymmetric encryption often adds heaps of bloat but that's a different
story.

Andy Lewis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I`d like to know, after encrypting PlainText in any of BlockCipher/in
> any of mode, are CipherText and PlainText always same length? Or are
> there some modes or ciphers, which produce CipherText, that is longer/
> shorter that PlainText?
>
>   

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