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Design of cryptographic primitives (algorithms), like block ciphers, stream ciphers, random-number generators, hash functions, MACs, key exchanges, public-key encryption or signature schemes. Also tag with the relevant type of primitive. If you ask about a known existing algorithm, also tag with its name.

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Can I safely replace XOR with ADD in a stream cipher?

consider you have a key $K$ and plaintext $P$. then, $P \oplus K = C$ (cipertext) $C \oplus K = P$ (plaintext) Here, algorithms for encryption and decryption are same (thats not true for addition) …
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