Re: ARC4 algorithm

This will be my last posting on the subject, because this is ENTIRELY the wrong forum for crypto-babytalk.

> The one-time pad (OTP) is the only cipher that has been proven to be

This is a straw man. It is clear you have no real background in cryptography, so you are wasting everyone's time. Please go away.

The one-time pad is "unbreakable", because it postulates the existence of a perfectly secure channel over which the random (not pseudo-random) key is distributed. If you already have a perfectly secure channel, USE IT TO SEND THE MESSAGE IN THE FIRST PLACE. Furthermore, a cipher on its own is useless. OTPs are certainly vulnerable to MITM/impersonation attacks, active (bit-flipping attacks) and so forth. In other words, one-time-pads are useless in reality.

Of course, I may as well be explaining this to a potted plant, since it is clear you have absolutely no interest in real cryptography, real securit assessment, or real threat models.

> Sorry, I really can't be bothered going into the details.

begone, troll.

out.

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-kj Received on Mon Mar 17 12:26:15 2003