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Re: Open Source Embedded SSL - Export Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Rose)
Thu Nov 27 09:49:04 2003
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:45:47 +1100
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From: Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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At 12:27 PM 11/27/2003, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
>RC4 is extremely weak for some applications. A block cipher is greatly
>preferable.
I'm afraid that I can't agree with this howling logical error. RC4 is
showing its age, but there are other stream ciphers that are acceptable,
and there are block ciphers (such as FEAL, same vintage as RC4) that aren't
even vaguely secure.
Greg.
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