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From: Ed Gerck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [!! SPAM] Re: Is AES better than RC4
Joseph Ashwood wrote:
SOP: discard first 100's of bytes
This is part of the lack of key agility.
Using it securely requires so much in the way of heroic efforts
SOP: hash
the
first bytes).
Cheers, Ed Gerck
Joseph Ashwood wrote:
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From: Ed Gerck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [!! SPAM] Re: Is AES better than RC4
Please note that my email was way different in scope. My opening
sentence, where I basically said that it does not make much sense
to compare RC4 with AES, was cut in your quote
RC4 should have been retired a decade ago, that it has not is due solely to
the undereducated going with whatever's fastest. It's time we allowed RC4
to stay dead.
Joe
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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
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James A. Donald
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
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Joseph Ashwood wrote:
RC4 should have been retired a decade ago,
Why?
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James A. Donald
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From: James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [!! SPAM] Re: Is AES better than RC4
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Joseph Ashwood wrote:
RC4 should have been retired a decade ago,
Why?
It is in general distuingable from random, actually quite quickly.
The first few bytes are so
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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,