[1262] in bugtraq
Re: Lotus Notes Encryption Methods
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vishy Gopalakrishnan)
Tue Mar 14 22:53:50 1995
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 21:32:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Vishy Gopalakrishnan <vishy@sph.umich.edu>
To: "Dr. Frederick B. Cohen" <fc@all.net>
Cc: root@wu1.wl.aecl.ca, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <9503142118.AA14653@all.net>
On Tue, 14 Mar 1995, Dr. Frederick B. Cohen wrote:
> > In the tech notes that I have, it would seemt that RC2 uses a 128bit key and
> > RC4 uses a 256bit key.
> >
> > Both these keys seem rather small in comparison to something like PGP's
> > 1028bit key.
>
> 128bit key is about 40 digits - NSA approved - breakable by a PC
> in a few hours.
> FC
>
Correct me if I am wrong - RC2 and RC4 are not public key cyrptosystems,
and hence are not "prone" to the problems with low moduli.
Vishy
