Talk:Keystream

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Keep it simple[edit]

I added this article "just" to give a short explanation of the word "keystream". How keystreams work are already discussed indepth in other articles like one-time pad and stream cipher. So I think we can keep this article short and simple and instead in some way point people to those other articles for more reading.

--David Göthberg 10:30, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This article is very easy-to-understand without any ambiguity and is ten times shorter than the 'stream cipher' article. However, I really start understanding 'stream cipher' not because of the 'stream cipher' article, but because of this article, which is ironic. You did a good job. Thank you.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.59.135.213 (talk • contribs) 18:39, 13 May 2008

Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it.

--David Göthberg (talk) 03:39, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Characters to numbers[edit]

Forgive me if I misunderstand, but are you sure the numbers in the chart are correct? If a = 0, then t should be 20, not 19. If I do understand correctly, several of the numbers are off by run rendering the output inaccurate.... --Gary Ford (talk) 23:41, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No, t = 19 is correct. But yeah, this is tricky. I myself did two errors in the first version of the keystream example table, but those we fixed long ago. So here are two conversion tables so we can easier check that table:

Characters to numbers:

a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k	l	m	n	o	p	q	r	s	t	u	v	w	x	y	z
0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25

Large numbers wrapped to small numbers (modular arithmetic):

26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50
0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24

I rechecked the article example table again, using the conversion tables above. I see no error in the article example table at this time.

--David Göthberg (talk) 14:59, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Inline citations suggestion[edit]

It would be helpful to add inline citations within the article. For example, adding an inline citation with a specific page number would better help readers connect topics within sections to the provided source. Brom20110101 (talk) 02:15, 13 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]