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Re:A Family of Better Random Number Generators by andreareina on Thursday October 15, 2020 @02:22AM (#24785455)
Speaking of rc4, what are the reproducibility issues? Quick search on mobile didn't turn anything up. Is it just the "alleged" designation, i.e. no confirmation that it implements Rivest's original cipher?
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Re:A Family of Better Random Number Generators by JoachimS on Thursday October 15, 2020 @02:58AM (#24785677)
IRRC The real RC4 was licensed to Novell and used in Notes.

People was later able to use the leaked, alleged rc4 algorithm to decrypt messages encrypted by Notes. That basically confirmed that the algorithms are the same.

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