[Cryptography] Do you think RC4 will become insecure for 2^16 encryptions of the same plaintext or less?

Ryan Carboni ryacko at gmail.com
Tue Oct 7 20:30:24 EDT 2014


Do you think RC4 will become insecure for 2^16 encryptions of the same
plaintext or less? Such a weakness would be crackable. It could probably be
achieved if weak states were discovered. But I don't think it would be a
result of the current attack discovered in 2013 by Bernstein and Co.
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