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Re: Jail Cell Cipher (modified RC4)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Mon Feb 25 15:57:09 2002
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Paul Crowley has shown that Schneier's Solitaire cipher is insecure.
See http://www.ciphergoth.org/crypto/solitaire/. Repetitions occur with
frequence 1/22.5 rather than 1/26 as they should. Also, the state
machine is not reversible, contrary to the design intent.
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