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Re: RC4 Legal Issues




Andrew Brown says:
> They claim that RC4 is 10 or more times as fast as DES.  Has anyone done 
> any speed trials against libdes yet?

John Ioannidis, playing with the posted code, claims to have gotten
24mbps out of it, on a machine where a carefully tuned version of Phil
Karn's DES code gets 2mbps.

Perry