[Cryptography] Encryption opinion

Stephan Neuhaus stephan.neuhaus at tik.ee.ethz.ch
Wed Aug 20 03:04:50 EDT 2014


On 2014-08-19, 15:38, Watson Ladd wrote:
> Cryptanalysis of RC4 broke WEP

A small nitpick: IIRC, WEP wasn't broken through cryptanalysis of RC4
(at least not initially), but because the designers of WEP had designed
too small an IV so that IVs and hence keystreams would repeat before long.

Fun,

Stephan


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