From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 11 16: 2:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A37437B422 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:02:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA15282; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:01:10 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAJfaWYD; Mon Sep 11 16:01:01 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA21551; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:02:16 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200009112302.QAA21551@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: affordable wireless To: blk@skynet.be (Brad Knowles) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 23:02:08 +0000 (GMT) Cc: oberman@es.net (Kevin Oberman), khera@kciLink.com (Vivek Khera), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Brad Knowles" at Sep 05, 2000 08:16:11 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > We can agree that the 40 bit stuff is not worth the trouble. My 128 > > bit Lucent card says "128-bit RC-4 encryption". Last I heard, RC-4 was > > not considered a "safe" algorithm. > > Looking at my card, I see that you are absolutely right -- it is > 128-bit RC4. I am not personally aware of any security weaknesses in > this algorithm, but I agree that it is not widely used, and I believe > that is probably because it is not felt to be as secure as > Triple-DES, CAST-128, or IDEA. J. Daemen, R. Govaerts, J. Vandewalle, "Resynchronization weaknesses in synchronous stream ciphers," Advances in Cryptology, Proceedings Eurocrypt'93, LNCS 765, T. Helleseth, Ed., Springer-Verlag, 1994, pp. 159-169. 32. J. Goli'c, "Linear statistical weakness of alleged RC4 keystream generator," Advances in Cryptology, Proc. Eurocrypt'97, LNCS 1233, W. Fumy, Ed., SpringerVerlag, 1997, pp. 226--238. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message