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RC5: Rivest Cipher 5 RC5, or Rivest Cipher 5 designed by Ronald Rivest in 1994, is a block cipher with a variable block size (32, 64 or 128 bits), key size (0 to 2040 bits) and number of rounds (0 to 255). The original suggested choice of parameters were a block size of 64 bits, a 128-bit key and 12 rounds. A key feature of RC5 is the use of data-dependent rotations; one of the goals of RC5 was to prompt the study and evaluation of such operations as a cryptographic primitive. RC5 also consists of a number of modular additions and eXclusive OR (XOR)s.
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RC5: Rivest Cipher 5
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