-- On 27 Jul 2001, at 11:33, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote:
A draft paper by Scott Fluhrer, Itsik Mantin and Adi Shamir was released on July 25, 2001 and announces new attacks on the RC4 cipher that is the basis for CipherSaber-1. Some of these attacks specifically involve the use of an IV with a secret key, the very scheme used in CipherSaber. Prof. Shamir states in an e-mail accompanying the release:
If I understand the paper http://www.eyetap.org/~rguerra/toronto2001/rc4_ksaproc.pdf correctly, Cybersabre and WEP would be fixed if instead of making the RC4 initialization by concatenating a permanent and unchanging secret key, and an ever changing visible random value, they instead constructed the RC4 key by doing several different SHA hashes of the unchanging secret key, and the ever changing visible random value, and concatenated those hashes, and also discarded some substantial number of initial bytes from the RC4 output. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG xXgj5w0VTwI81xCh6amG5KOaB6nNDXD/mS2s7VXR 4vvEsQrjo5uE2RHZQa/1atZPduIFyneZNWgzOS40c --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@wasabisystems.com