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| | Ron Rivest's RC6 - New Cipher for AES |
 | | See: http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/rc6.ps or http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/rc6.pdf RC6 seems to be a speedy, versatile, and unusally compact algorithm which -- in Rivest's trademark style -- argues for both the power and the elegance of simplicity. |
 | | RC6 may, at first glance, appear to be a straight-forward evolutionary development from RC5, but Rivest noted in his paper that he and his team had explored dozens of alternatives in great depth before he finally decided upon this design as providing what he felt was an optimal mix of security, simplicity, and performance. |
 | | A version of RC6 is more accurately specified as RC6-w/r/b where the word size is "w" bits, encryption consists of a nonnegative number of rounds "r," and "b" denotes the length of the encryption key in bytes. |
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