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Why RC4 used constant 24bits for initial vector
Why RC4 used 24-bits constant value + 40 bits random values to generate key?
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What is the PRG period of stream ciphers such as RC4 or Salsa20?
I am confused about how long a stream cipher can be used before you should change the key. To be concrete, let me use the stream cipher based on RC4 as an example.
Let's say I want to encrypt a very ...
