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Adam Back (aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk)
Tue, 11 Aug 1998 19:16:31 +0100
> The BBC is reporting that a 17 year old kid has implemented 2048 bit RC4
> and sold copies to a US company for their security. Sounds fishy to me,
> here's the article link from the BBC
I didn't read the article, but RC4's actual maximum key size _is_ 2048
bits (256 bytes). Clearly the effective key space is smaller: for
starters there are only 256! possible permutations of the s array,
which comes out at around 1684 bits.
Anyway, 2048 bits does not indicate clue impairment, necessarily.
Adam
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