On 5/23/06, James A. Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
AES is new, and people keep claiming progress towards breaking it, without however, so far producing any breaks. RC4 is old and has numerous known weaknesses, which are tricky to code around, and have caught many an implementor - notice for example Wifi. But these are known weaknesses, and no new ones have turned up for some time, nor does it seem likely that they will.
I'm confused. AES is a _block_ cipher while RC4 is a _stream_ cipher. How are you going to compare them? It is makes much more sense to compare AES to RC6 block cipher (if you like something from the RC-family of ciphers) but that was already done by the AES standard committee. RC6 became one of the five finalists but then lost the race to Rijndael. Look at the details of AES selection process if interested. Max --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
