On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 02:54:52PM -0500, Joy Latten wrote:

Just to make sure I understand correctly, 
our plaintext will be a multiple of the blocksize,
therefore it may be padded, right? 

Yes but the padding is something for the user to worry about
and shouldn't concern you.

Also, since it is a multiple, I don't have to worry about last
block of plaintext being less than blocksize and truncating 
the keystream or ciphertext, right?

Yes.

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