In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Murray wr
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>We have most of this, and RC4 can deliver. RC4's "licence" is
>fine. Call it "ArCFour" and there is no problem. The code is
>small, fast and repeatable, and meets conditions 1-4 above.

There are some concerns about RC4's strength and predictability.

In cases were we just want trivial "randomness", this doesn't matter,
but when we start to seed it with /dev/random to get good randomness
we to be more careful.

Maybe we should spend an AES on it, just in case ?

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