Lecture Notes on Stream Ciphers and RC4
by: Rick Wash
Abstract
By: Rick Wash
In these notes I explain symmetric key additive keystream ciphers, using as an example the cipher RC4. I discuss a number of attack models for this class of ciphers, using attacks on RC4 as examples. I cover a number of attacks on RC4, some of which are effective against implementations of RC4 used in the real world.
Reference
Rick Wash. “Lecture Notes on Stream Ciphers and RC4” Working paper. September 2001.
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