Table of Key Lengths and Brute Force Cracking Times

Eric Hughes hughes at ah.com
Sat Apr 16 21:27:28 PDT 1994


>First, some typical key lengths for block ciphers, as reported by
>Schneier:

[table omitted]

>No
>mention of RC4, which may in "exportable" versions may be as short as
>40-45 bits.

RC4 is a stream cipher, and thus not in the table of block ciphers.

Eric






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