Re: Non-PK encryption not vulnerable via low key length?!
Adam Shostack (adam@bwh.harvard.edu)
Fri, 17 Mar 1995 08:24:37 -0500 (EST)
| RC2 and RC4 are both public key systems -- then why wouldn't factoring
| the key prove equally as (greatly more) effective as with attacks on
| RSA/PGP.
| __pardon_my_misunderstanding__but__?
|
No, rc2 and rc4 are secret key ciphers, which are sometimes used in
conjunction with public key systems. The keys are hopefully random,
and not the product of two primes.
Adam
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