Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 23:02:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: blk@skynet.be (Brad Knowles) Cc: oberman@es.net (Kevin Oberman), khera@kciLink.com (Vivek Khera), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: affordable wireless Message-ID: <200009112302.QAA21551@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <v0422081bb5dae7cdddfa@[195.238.1.121]> from "Brad Knowles" at Sep 05, 2000 08:16:11 PM
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> > We can agree that the 40 bit stuff is not worth the trouble. My 128 > > bit Lucent card says "128-bit RC-4 encryption". Last I heard, RC-4 was > > not considered a "safe" algorithm. > > Looking at my card, I see that you are absolutely right -- it is > 128-bit RC4. I am not personally aware of any security weaknesses in > this algorithm, but I agree that it is not widely used, and I believe > that is probably because it is not felt to be as secure as > Triple-DES, CAST-128, or IDEA. J. Daemen, R. Govaerts, J. Vandewalle, "Resynchronization weaknesses in synchronous stream ciphers," Advances in Cryptology, Proceedings Eurocrypt'93, LNCS 765, T. Helleseth, Ed., Springer-Verlag, 1994, pp. 159-169. 32. J. Goli'c, "Linear statistical weakness of alleged RC4 keystream generator," Advances in Cryptology, Proc. Eurocrypt'97, LNCS 1233, W. Fumy, Ed., SpringerVerlag, 1997, pp. 226--238. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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