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Re: RC4 [was: RE: Passport Passwords Stored in Plaintext]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Young)
Tue Oct 23 10:59:36 2001
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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:19:18 -0700
From: Eric Young <eay@pobox.com>
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To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Cc: jamesd@echeque.com, "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com>,
Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net>, metaphone@eudoramail.com,
mac-crypto@vmeng.com, cryptography@wasabisystems.com,
coderpunks@toad.com, dcsb@ai.mit.edu,
"R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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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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