Re: What's wrong with this RC4?
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Re: What's wrong with this RC4?

From: Andrew Pogrebennyk <andrew86@voliacable.com>
Date: Fri Dec 30 2005 - 12:07:18 CET

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 15:05:15 +0000, Unruh wrote:

> Andrew Pogrebennyk <andrew86@voliacable.com> writes:
>
>>I am still not sure if ARCFOUR will be used in a project I'm working on,
>>but if I return to ARCFOUR, I'll use it as a basis for implementing
>>CipherSaber and probably will enhance it with multi-roung initiation or by
>>using "2-byte RC4". Would be very grateful for instructions on those
>>techniques.
>
>
>
> Please make sure that y ou keep it in your own home and do not try to foist
> it off on anyone else. As an educational exprience it might be worth
> something. At your current state of knowledge, as crypto it is not.

Sure, I understand that. I will use only well tested implementations in my
projects, but for educational exprience I'd like to learn about those
techniques used to improve RC4. Thanks!
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:41:48 2006