Oh it shows the encryption of 12 byte plaintext. As I said it has to be
padded to the blocksize unless you use a streamcipher. That's all they
state.

Andy Lewis wrote:

> > Oh, well, got it, thanks.
> > http://www.codeproject.com/KB/security/BlockCiphers.aspx I was asking
> > this, because this page`s table "Plain Text versus Cipher Text Sizes"
> > confused me. Thanks again  :) 
> >
> > On 5 авг, 12:38, "Elias Önal" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >   
>   
>> >> 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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