JA, Please note that my email was way different in scope. My opening sentence, where I basically said that it does not make much sense to compare RC4 with AES, was cut in your quote -- but here it is:
"AES has more uses and use modes than RC4, in addition to the fact that it encrypts more than one byte at once. Having said that, it is curious to note the following misconceptions:" BTW, discarding the first 100's of bytes in RC4 is easy, fast, and has nothing to with lack of "key agility". And, if you do it, you don't even have to hash the key (ie, you must EITHER hash the key OR discard the first bytes). Cheers, Ed Gerck Joseph Ashwood wrote:
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