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Under Types
''Symmetric-key encryption can use either stream ciphers or block ciphers. ''


 * Stream ciphers encrypt the digits (typically bytes), or letters (in substitution ciphers) of a message one at a time. An example is ChaCha20.
 * Substitution ciphers are well-known ciphers, but can be easily decrypted using a frequency table. This citation is not working at the moment... https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/227/spring05/book/main.pdf
 * Block ciphers take a number of bits and encrypt them as a single unit, padding the plaintext so that it is a multiple of the block size. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm, approved by NIST in December 2001, uses 128-bit blocks.

Under Security of symmetric ciphers
''Symmetric ciphers have historically been susceptible to known-plaintext attacks, chosen-plaintext attacks, differential cryptanalysis and linear cryptanalysis. Careful construction of the functions for each round can greatly reduce the chances of a successful attack.[ citation needed]'' Note to self: This is by pediapress, Wiki's own book... What do I do about this? You can also increase the key length or the rounds in the encryption process to better protect against attack. This, however, tends to increase the processing power and decrease the speed at which the process runs due to the amount of operations the system needs to do.

For the rest of the article
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Intro (copied)
''Symmetric-key algorithms are algorithms for cryptography that use the same cryptographic keys for both the encryption of plaintext and the decryption of ciphertext. The keys may be identical, or there may be a simple transformation to go between the two keys. The keys, in practice, represent a shared secret between two or more parties that can be used to maintain a private information link. The requirement that both parties have access to the secret key is one of the main drawbacks of symmetric-key encryption, in comparison to public-key encryption (also known as asymmetric-key encryption). '' However, symmetric-key encryption are usually better for bulk encryption. They have a smaller file size which allows for less storage space and faster transmission. Due to this, asymmetric-encryption is often used to exchange the secret key for symmetric-key encryption.

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