Thequestion Streamciphers:deadoralive? wasposedbyAdiShamir.Intended to provokedebate,the questioncouldnot havebeen better, ormorestarkly,put. However,itwasnotShamir sintentiontosuggestthatstreamciphersthemselves were obsolete; rather he was questioning whether stream ciphers of a dedicated designwererelevantnowthattheAESispervasivelydeployedandcanbeusedas a perfectly acceptablestreamcipher. To explore this question the eSTREAM Project was launched in 2004, part of the EU-sponsored ECRYPT Framew ...