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Re: Convert arc4 from a cipher into a block cipher

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On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:33:45PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>
> Are you trying to speed up arc4?  Or you want to simplify the code?  Or
> maybe you are trying to make arc4 unsuitable for anything other than WEP
> and TKIP?  The later should be fine, actually, considering the known
> security issues.

No the point is to make arc4 compliant with the crypto API by
being reentrant.

Functionality-wise there is no difference.

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