From: Simon McAuliffe <Simon.McAuliffe@Comp.VUW.AC.NZ>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 17:45:53 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: RC4 crack
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Message-ID: <199507190045.MAA28819@lido.comp.vuw.ac.nz>
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shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green) wrote on Tuesday, 18 Jul 1995:

> >As to the problem of not having 24-7 connectivity, you could either
> >use the WWW page, or the server (it will do this anyway) will keep
> >re-trying to get a socket connect to the master until it suceeds, so
> >when you next go on-line ...  wham it gets through again as
> >connectivity is resumed and says whatever it has been trying to say.
> >We need it to retry in case of network out (or horror) big master
> >falling over, until it gets resumed.
> 
> On many machines that will mean that it will try to initiate a connection
> to the host. Please allow for a manual connect option.

While we're suggesting features, how about including something (on the
networked version) which performs a quick sanity check on any clients
so we know they're not bogus, ie send one or more known plaintext/ciphertext
pairs with corresponding keys to verify the correctness of the compilation.