block cipher

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|cryptography}} Any [[deterministic]] [[cipher]] that operates on fixed-size groups of [[bit]]s (binary digits), called blocks, with an unvarying [[transformation]] specified by a [[symmetric]] [[key]].

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