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Wed, 12 Aug 1998 01:34:54 +1000 (EST)
> 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
RC4 supports only 256! state variations at the most. In terms of
the key, this may be closer to 128!. Still quite large, but somewhat
less that 2^2048.
Cheers,
Julian.
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