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RC4 analysis

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NODE c493533dRC4 analysis jcard@st6000.sct.edu (Justin Card)Tue, 22 Oct 1996 08:02:15 -0700 (PDT)

Has anybody out there done any significant analysis of the RC4 stream
cipher?  What I am interested in is the expected cycle length of the 
standard implementation (256 byte state table)?  Working with the reduced
sizes, the cycle length appears to grow exponentially, but I am unsure how
to verify this.  

Have there been any other results surfacing besides the reports on weak keys?

thx.
Justin