RC4 [was: RE: Passport Passwords Stored in Plaintext]

Eric Young eay at pobox.com
Tue Oct 23 01:19:18 EDT 2001


Adam Shostack wrote:

>| RC4 is like a brick that can be used to build a house.
>
>I'd say that RC4 is like one of those cool, semi-opaque glass bricks.
>
Considering that RSA Security changed their logo to a red 'brick' a 
while back (they called
it a brick as part of the corporate PR around the change).  I can't help
but see the irony of using this analogy to describe that which they 
claim is a trade secret
but is widely known :-).

eric





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