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Re: Cryptanalysis of RC4 - Preliminary Results (Repeat)
At 06:39 AM 9/30/95 -0400, Dr. Frederick B. Cohen wrote:
>The problem is that if these keys are weak, there may be many others
>that are also weak. In fact, by the time we explore all of the
>weaknesses, we may find the system is no longer very strong at all.
These so called weak keys are far from weak.
You have a 1 in 64000 chance of reducing the search space by 64000.
Big deal.
Use 128 bit session keys.
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