More Snake oil

Brian C. Lane (nexus@tatoosh.com)
Tue, 11 Aug 1998 07:19:39 -0700

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The BBC is reporting that a 17 year old kid has implemented 2048 bit RC4
and sold copies to a US company for their security. Sounds fishy to me,
here's the article link from the BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_145000/145179.stm

  Brian

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