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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Thu May 27 1999 - 23:44:20
Adam Shostack (adam@homeport.org)
Sun, 4 Apr 1999 00:02:04 -0500
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 03:13:47PM -0800, Alex Alten wrote:
| At 09:13 AM 4/2/99 -0600, Bruce Schneier wrote:
| >
| >You are free to consider it to be what you like, but you have to understand
| >that you will continue to be ridiculed in the community. RC4 is an OFB
| >stream cipher. So is whatever-it-is that you use.
| >
|
| You are right, we have been ridiculed in the community. Your news letter
| and web site have been prominent in stating that it is "snake oil". And,
| as a fact, our early implementation efforts have had less strength than we
| had originally estimated. However it is a fundamental cipher, and if we
And here I thought it was a Vernam cipher.
Too bad none of my reference books talk about fundamental ciphers.
Did you mean fundamentalist cipher perhaps? The study of the bible to
find coded messages hidden in every 17th letter?
Adam
-- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Thu May 27 1999 - 23:44:20