Re: VMPC
- From: Kristian Gjøsteen <kristiag+news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:37:17 +0000 (UTC)
<fortune.bruce@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Although I think that you rarely have an opportunity to observe that
much data before it is re-keyed.
As far as I know, rekeying does not help against the RC4 distinguisher.
I don't know if that is also the case against VMPC.
I admit, I am trying to get this discussed, as when distinguishers get
large enough, it becomes harder to see why this is a real-world
problem.
It isn't a disaster-style problem, but it is hard to see why one would
want to use a currently somewhat broken system when unbroken systems
are available. (I think there are unbroken systems available faster
than RC4.)
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Kristian Gjøsteen
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