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List:       cryptography
Subject:    Re: (A)RC4 state leakage
From:       Sidney Markowitz <sidney () sidney ! com>
Date:       2001-12-28 1:29:30
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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.





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