the original, highly mathematical paper can be found at < http://www.drizzle.com/~aboba/IEEE/rc4_ksaproc.pdf>. frankly, this was probably deliberate at the urging of various government agencies, digital cell phones also have encryption which is much weaker than it seems to be, in that case because the keys are highly redundant and hence effectively much shorter than stated. sadly there are those who think the public is too stupid to uncover such weaknesses, and that criminals aren't smart enough to figure it out as well. this threatens national security by making business communication much less secure and much less secure than most users assume. all in the name of making it easy for someone who knows the secret to spy, under the arrogant assumption that the secret won't get out. it's the clipper chip all over again, and it's just one reason foreign banks never use cryptography software developed in the u.s., then again for decades the nsa had an agreement with a respected swiss encryption company to have backdoors in all of their products, this allowed us to spy on the most secret communications of over 100 countries for decades, possibly good for us but definitely not good for them, and i'd be surprised if some other intelligence agencies hadn't figured it out and taken advantage of it as well. -- As has sadly been recently documented once again, there are three major gangs, the crips, the bloods and the badges, watch out for the badges.....
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