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using a cipher to encrypt a message, with some exceptions such as ROT13 and Atbash.

Most modern ciphers can be categorized in several ways:

* By whether they work on blocks of symbols usually of a fixed size (block ciphers), or on a continuous stream of symbols (stream ciphers).
* By whether the same key is used for both encryption and decryption (symmetric key algorithms),

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