reflecting on RC4

Alex Alten (Alten@Home.Com)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 00:21:45 -0800

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't RC4's strength drop to
a maximum of 16 bits with a chosen plaintext attack?
The chosen plaintext would be the first 256 bytes enciphered.

- Alex

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