A bold ssl idea ?
Piete Brooks
Piete.Brooks at cl.cam.ac.uk
Sun Sep 3 08:25:01 PDT 1995
> I understand that setting up RC4 keys is slower that testing for the correct
> key (I may have misuderstood this bit).
For pure RC4, Yes. However, SSL is not pure RC4.
> Is it considered practical to modify the brutessl code to have multiple
> message data, and test each against a key from allocated key space ?
You are the third person I've heard think of this.
[ The first did quite a lot of calculations before spotting the problem ! ]
> If so, this may mean that perhaps 3 message can be tested against a single
> in the time two single keys could be tested against one message.
Well, the original suggestion I heard was to try 64K at a time :-))
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