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Bruce Schneier (schneier@counterpane.com)
Thu, 01 Apr 1999 08:47:39 -0600
At 11:49 PM 3/31/99 -0800, Alex Alten wrote:
>
>As a founding employee of TriStrata I want to apologize to the
>crypto community for that "unbreakable" crap. As far as I can tell
>none of us here ever made that statement, but somehow we got tarred
>with it. If you handle the fundamentals correctly, a Vernam cipher
>is a useful tool in the crypto bag, with its good and bad attributes.
>RC4 is an example of one type. RKS is just another type.
This explains how the "unbreakable" crap got into your literature. You
confuse stream ciphers with Vernam ciphers. RC4 is an OFB stream
cipher. It is not a Vernam cipher.
I think you need to try again.
Bruce
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Thu May 27 1999 - 23:44:20