On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Tewari, Vijay wrote:
> Thanks. I was not interested in any particular cipher suite. Actually
> we are trying to run some experinments to determine the impact on tput
> on going from 40 to 128 bit ciphers. I am assuming that EXP-RC4-MD5 is 40
> bit
> while RC4-MD5 is 128 bit .
There shouldn't be any output impact on choosing 40 vs 128 bits.... In
fact, a 40 bits key is really a 128 bits key with only 40 of them
secret.... the 88 other ones are known...
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