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Jim Gillogly (jim@mentat.com)
Tue, 11 Aug 98 08:40:26 PDT
Brian Lane writes:
> 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
My DNS isn't resolving this host at the moment, but why do you think it
sounds snakey? 2048-bit RC4 means using 128 bytes of the potential
256-byte key. Obviously that's a waste of keying material, but not
otherwise inherently bogus. Clearly he couldn't <call> it RC4, but
other than that I don't see why it isn't a good choice for a product
that needs a stream cipher, assuming the usual precautions are used.
Jim Gillogly
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:57