The common wisdom when using (A)RC4 as a PRNG seems to be to discard the first few bytes of keystream it generates as it may be correlated to the keying material.
Does anyone have a reference that describes this in more detail? Or am I confused :) -d -- | By convention there is color, \\ Damien Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | By convention sweetness, By convention bitterness, \\ www.mindrot.org | But in reality there are atoms and space - Democritus (c. 400 BCE) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
