On 10/10/2011 3:11, Invisible wrote:
> RC4? Man, how ancient is that? You realise it was a weakness in RC4 that
> allowed WEP to be broken, right?

No. It was sending the key with each packet of data that allowed WEP to be 
broken. A stream cipher is a terrible tool to encrypt a packet-switched network.

> (Sadly, on further investigation, it appears that TLS 1 still uses RC4 or
> Triple-DES. So much for HTTPS being secure...)

RC4 hasn't been broken if you don't restart the stream for every packet.

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