The Counter (CTR) mode effectively uses a block cipher as a stream cipher. In this case, a unique nonce is supplied that is concatenated with the counter value to produce a keystream:
There are other modes, such as Cipher Feedback (CFB) mode, Galois Counter (GCM) mode, and Output Feedback (OFB) mode, which are also used in various scenarios.
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