Here's something by Ron Rivest about RC4 security that will give you a simple overview before delving into the articles that Steve Bellovin cited in his message. Note that Steve Bellovin's link includes the two papers on RC4 weaknesses that Rivest references.
http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/technotes/wep.html On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 16:42, Damien Miller wrote: > 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
