# RustCrypto: Cipher Traits
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Traits which define the functionality of [block ciphers] and [stream ciphers].
See [RustCrypto/block-ciphers] and [RustCrypto/stream-ciphers] for algorithm
implementations which use these traits.
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[block ciphers]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher
[stream ciphers]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_cipher
[RustCrypto/block-ciphers]: https://github.com/RustCrypto/block-ciphers
[RustCrypto/stream-ciphers]: https://github.com/RustCrypto/stream-ciphers