Re: ARC4 algorithm

On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Tobias Weingartner wrote:

> *laugh* Thank you for giving me so much to be happy about today. I mean,

I'm glad to be of service and am sorry to hear you're having problems in your life.

> Well, this is one mistake we're trying to prevent. All we ask, is some

If you're talking about my Leoaprd9 algorithm; be aware that L9 has the same output bias as ARC4; the non-negligible probability that successive outputs are the same.

This is fixed in Leopard10 (which I am still testing and am not ready to publish yet).

> > One time pads are unbreakable.

The one-time pad (OTP) is the only cipher that has been proven to be unconditionally secure, i.e. unbreakable in practice. It has also be proven that any unbreakable, unconditionally secure, cipher must in principle be a one-time pad.

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Reference:
http://www.ssh.com/support/cryptography/algorithms/symmetric.html

> > Yes I also came up with that idea. And I developed it much further to the

Sorry, I really can't be bothered going into the details. The source code for my vastly improved CSRNG is in my free software project; Caesarion.

http://www.wizardsworks.org/~robin/cion.html

> Will you be deleting my e-mail as well? Or will you finally answer my

I will be deleting your email in a few seconds after I've finished replying to it :)

> Again!?! What was the shortcoming in V9?

See above.

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cheers,
robin

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> --Toby.
Received on Mon Mar 17 12:25:50 2003