Re: Puffer 2.0 Released

[lmccarth@cs.umass.edu]

Kent Briggs writes:
[re: Puffer 2.0]
> New for version 2.0 is the addition of a very fast stream cipher,
> PC1.  PC1 operates with a 40-bit encryption key and produces the
> same stream output as RC4, 

Is PC1 a stream cipher implemented in a "clean room", by reference to an 
abstract specification of the algorithm implied by the Alleged-RC4 source
code, that interoperates with RC4-40 ?

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