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(A)RC4 state leakage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Damien Miller)
Thu Dec 27 19:45:49 2001
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 11:42:59 +1100 (EST)
From: Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>
To: <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
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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.
Does anyone have a reference that describes this in more detail? Or
am I confused :)
-d
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