Cracking RC4/40 for massive wiretapps
Deranged Mutant
WlkngOwl at unix.asb.com
Thu Aug 1 07:34:17 PDT 1996
Wait a minute: RC4 is an OFB cipher. The previous plaintext has no
effect on the ciphertext. Hence, an attacker with shitloads of
storage capacity can generate some initial output for each key and
test each pre-stored key against ciphertext for possible hits. Using
'flaws' in the key schedule (esp. if the key is based on a password
rather than a hash of a password) one could search for 'more likely
keys' first.
Rob
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