initialization. A cipher object is stateful: once you have encrypted a message you cannot encrypt (or decrypt) another message using the same object. The data to encrypt can be broken up in two or more pieces and `encrypt` can be called multiple times. That is, the statement: >>> c.encrypt(a) + c.encrypt(b) is equivalent to: >>> c.encrypt(a+b) This function does not add any padding to the plaintext. :Parameters: plaintext : bytes/bytearray/memoryview The piece of data to encrypt. It can be of any length. :Keywords: output : bytearray/memoryview The location where the ciphertext must be written to. If ``None``, the ciphertext is returned. :Return: If ``output`` is ``None``, the ciphertext is returned as ``bytes``. Otherwise, ``None``. r