1994-09-15 - Re: RC4 Legal Issues

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
To: Andrew Brown <a.brown@nexor.co.uk>
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UTC Datetime: 1994-09-15 13:36:48 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 15 Sep 94 06:36:48 PDT

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 94 06:36:48 PDT
To: Andrew Brown <a.brown@nexor.co.uk>
Subject: Re: RC4 Legal Issues
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Andrew Brown says:
> They claim that RC4 is 10 or more times as fast as DES.  Has anyone done 
> any speed trials against libdes yet?

John Ioannidis, playing with the posted code, claims to have gotten
24mbps out of it, on a machine where a carefully tuned version of Phil
Karn's DES code gets 2mbps.

Perry

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• 1994-09-15 (Wed, 14 Sep 94 23:24:12 PDT) - RC4 Legal Issues - “Patrick G. Bridges” <bridges@cs.arizona.edu>
  • 1994-09-15 (Wed, 14 Sep 94 23:44:47 PDT) - Re: RC4 Legal Issues - Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
    • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 07:47:04 PDT) - RC4 Legal Issues - hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
  • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 00:55:12 PDT) - Re: RC4 Legal Issues - Andrew Brown <a.brown@nexor.co.uk>
    • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 06:36:48 PDT) - Re: RC4 Legal Issues - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
  • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 07:34:16 PDT) - RC4 Legal Issues - hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
    • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 11:06:11 PDT) - Re: RC4 Legal Issues - Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
      • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 11:18:24 PDT) - Re: RC4 Legal Issues - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
        • 1994-09-18 (Sat, 17 Sep 94 17:19:54 PDT) - RC4 Legal Issues - hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)