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Re: Fast MAC algorithms?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sun Jul 26 16:53:08 2009
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:50:26 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Reply-To: jamesd@echeque.com
To: Joseph Ashwood <ashwood@msn.com>
CC: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP442D83112FEC5F7431AC1AC180@phx.gbl>
From: "Nicolas Williams" <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
>> For example, many people use arcfour in SSHv2 over AES because arcfour
>> is faster than AES.
Joseph Ashwood wrote:
> I would argue that they use it because they are stupid. ARCFOUR should
> have been retired well over a decade ago, it is weak, it meets no
> reasonable security requirements,
No one can break arcfour used correctly - unfortunately, it is tricky to
use it correctly.
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