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Re: 40-bit rc2/4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Wed Feb 5 23:02:14 1997
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 17:00:17 -0800
To: Steve Reid <steve@edmweb.com>
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
At 01:32 PM 2/5/97 -0800, Steve Reid wrote:
>I don't know about RC2, but implementing an RC4 cracker in hardware is
>said to not work very well (compared to DES, for example) because the
>algorithm was designed to be efficient in software.
It is my understanding that the authors of the RC4-in-hardware paper didn't
have enough chip real estate to effectively work on RC4. I doubt the NSA
has a similar problem.
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