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by stouset 3674 days ago
Your understanding is backwards. Stream ciphers are fundamentally compatible with random-access decryption, so yes this is entirely possible.

That said, authentication of a ciphertext is, in many ways, as important as encryption. So you would need to design the archive format in such a way that individual files' contents could be authenticated and decrypted on the whole, instead of authenticating the contents of the entire archive.