[627] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: RC4 Security (formerly: Re: The unmentionable algorithm)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Paul Johnson)
Tue Apr 22 16:58:19 1997
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 14:31:20 -0600 (MDT)
From: Michael Paul Johnson <mpj@ebible.org>
To: coderpunks@toad.com
cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970422111950.28908A-100000@cybercash.com>
Sapphire II is almost as fast as RC4, and probably at least as secure...
but hasn't been scrutinized very long. It has been examined for obvious
flaws, though. It is a little different in that it normally runs with
feedback, but it can be used in pure stream cipher mode, too.
Documentation is at
ftp://ftp.csn.net/mpj/public/sapphire.pdf
Free source code (C++ & Pascal) is at http://www.sni.net/~mpj/crypto.htm
(USA & Canada only).
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