Re: doubts about rc4

From: Michael Amling (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 11/26/03

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    Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 04:11:50 GMT
    
    

    Gregory G Rose wrote:
    > In article <Pine.GSO.4.58.0311251310330.22703@turmalina.dcc.ufmg.br>,
    > Leonardo Barbosa e Oliveira <leob@dcc.ufmg.br> wrote:
    >
    >>Even though I am newbie about crypt., I think my results
    >>are a little bit strangers. I am using avr studio simulator
    >>for rc4. However, the number of cycles are varying as function
    >>of both message size and key size.
    >
    > I don't know that this simulator is. But I do know
    > that no-one has ever detected a cycle in RC4 if it
    > was properly initialised.

       I think the OP was talking about CPU cycles, rather than about
    repetitions in the keystream.

    --Mike Amling


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