1994-09-14 - RC4 compatibility testing

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From: Nathan Loofbourrow <loofbour@cis.ohio-state.edu>
To: ekr@eit.COM (Eric Rescorla)
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Message ID: <199409140305.XAA20174@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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UTC Datetime: 1994-09-14 03:05:32 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 13 Sep 94 20:05:32 PDT

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From: Nathan Loofbourrow <loofbour@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 94 20:05:32 PDT
To: ekr@eit.COM (Eric Rescorla)
Subject: RC4 compatibility testing
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Eric Rescorla writes:
 > I note that this is the algorithm _without_ Hal Finney's
 > proposed modification
 > 
 > (see <199409130605.XAA24133@jobe.shell.portal.com>).

Hal Finney's patch makes syntactic sense, but won't affect the results
of the algorithm. Therefore, Eric's test suite holds for both versions.

nathan

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• 1994-09-14 (Tue, 13 Sep 94 18:38:18 PDT) - RC4 compatibility testing - ekr@eit.COM (Eric Rescorla)
  • 1994-09-14 (Tue, 13 Sep 94 20:05:32 PDT) - RC4 compatibility testing - Nathan Loofbourrow <loofbour@cis.ohio-state.edu>
  • 1994-09-14 (Wed, 14 Sep 94 13:50:41 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - Brad Huntting <huntting@glarp.com>
    • 1994-09-14 (Wed, 14 Sep 94 14:00:16 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
      • 1994-09-15 (Wed, 14 Sep 94 17:25:17 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - Jim choate <ravage@bga.com>
        • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 05:27:36 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
          • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 08:26:33 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
            • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 08:56:58 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
              • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 16:24:17 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
            • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 11:35:36 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - Random Factor <sq0nk@alt.anonymous.messages>