Paper 2005/233

On the Entropy of Arcfour Keys

Luke O'Connor

Abstract

This paper is a copy of IBM Research Report RZ 3019 published in 1998, which was a study of some issues related to keys of Arcfour. At the time of writing Arcfour was the common pseudonym used for RC4. Quite of a few of the results in the paper have now been superseded. We have submitted this paper to the IACR eprint archive mainly for reference purposes, since IBM research reports are not indexed in general by Google and other search engines.

Metadata
Available format(s)
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Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. The paper appeared as IBM Research Report RZ3019, 1998.
Keywords
RC4
Contact author(s)
luke oconnor @ swissonline ch
History
2005-07-20: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2005/233
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2005/233,
      author = {Luke O'Connor},
      title = {On the Entropy of Arcfour Keys},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2005/233},
      year = {2005},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/233}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/233}
}
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