Re: Cracking decrypted file when knowing partial contents

From: Paul O. BARTLETT (bartlett_at_smart.net)
Date: 04/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:26:46 -0400

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Gregory G Rose wrote:

> In article <Pine.LNX.4.58.0404211952310.4349@smart.net>,
> Paul O. BARTLETT <bartlett@smart.net> wrote:
> >{posted from comp.security.pgp.discuss}
> >
> >This is actually OT for a PGP newsgroup, but since you broght it up.....
>
> Maybe that's why you haven't heard...

    I don't follow the other newsgroups to which this was crossposted.
It just seemed a little OT for the one I do follow.

> >On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Bill Unruh wrote (small excerpt):
> >
> >> Also, what is the world is RC4 doing there at all. [trim]
> >
> > What is so bad about RC4 (or Arcfour, which is supposedly the same
> >thing)? [trim]
>
> The Fluhrer-Mantin-Shamir attack, and the
> unfixable Fluhrer-McGrew biases, that's what.

    For those of us who do not have the opportunity to follow all the
advanced discussions in the cryptography community, some references
would be nice. (Yes, I know I could Google for them, but some
references would still be nice in addition to just throwing names
around. Thanks.) 

-- 
Paul Bartlett
bartlett "at" smart "dot" net
PGP key info in message headers

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