Re: small crypto that isn't predictable

2001-01-24 Thread Paul Crowley
Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you've got room for an IV, you _could_ do something like > XORing the IV with the key, not the data stream - > that means that it isn't really using the same algorithm > for the IV as for the rest of the data stream, but you may not care. With RC4, it

MPAA v. 2600 - Appeal Brief of Amici Curiae

2001-01-24 Thread John Young
We offer James Tyre's Brief of Amici Curiae on behalf of 17 cryptographers, professors and scientists, for appeal of the MPAA v. 2600 judgment: http://cryptome.org/mpaa-v-2600-bac.htm The amici: Harold Abelson Andrew W. Appel Dan Boneh Edward W. Felten Robert Harper Andy Hertzfeld Brian Kern

Re: small crypto that isn't predictable

2001-01-24 Thread Bill Stewart
This is more of a cryptography question than a coding question, so I've Cc:d [EMAIL PROTECTED], and you may want to shift the discussion there. How small do you need? And how unpredictable? RC4's pretty small, though it has issues with how you use it. DES isn't really all that big these days -