Security technology
Last week, Ron Rivest gave a talk at MIT about Spritz, a new stream cipher by him and Jacob Schuldt. It’s basically a redesign of RC4, given current cryptographic tools and knowledge. RC4 is an example of what I think of as a too-good-to-be-true cipher. It looks so simple. It is so simple. In classic … Read More “Spritz: A New RC4-Like Stream Cipher” »