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Re: RC4 Security (formerly: Re: The unmentionable algorithm)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Tue Apr 22 10:53:27 1997
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 23:22:26 -0700
To: perry@piermont.com
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: coderpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199704212333.TAA08124@jekyll.piermont.com>
>> Well, that makes RC4 sound rather unappealing. However, is there any
>> other stream or block cipher that's even remotely as efficient as RC4?
>
>SEAL ... b) is far faster than anything else I've ever seen.
RC5 is pretty fast. It's a block cypher, so it doesn't have the
typical stream-cypher weaknesses, but it's also newer than RC4,
so there's even more risk of something undiscovered being wrong.
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