3 ms·

going forward, maybe. but AES was not standardized until 2001, and not in wide browser adoption for what? another 10 years?

• salient 13y ago
  Maybe this will be the motivation everyone else needs to dump RC4? http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-roster-of-tls-cipher-suites-weaknesses.html http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-roster-of...
  • tedunangst 13y ago
    The patent has already expired. Feel free to use it to your heart's content.
  • harshreality 13y ago
    Worse, there's the allegation that NSA can crack RC4 in realtime (although I don't know what that means, other than "fast"). https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/398059565947699200 https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/398059565947699200
    • Already__Taken 13y ago
      I'm not much into crypto but I'm pretty sure RC4 has been broken for a very long time now.
    • reginaldjcooper 13y ago
      realtime means your algorithm is guaranteed within a certain window of time, even accounting for delays talking to memory, caches, etc. If it's okay to "drop frames" it is referred to as "soft real time", otherwise it is referred to as "hard real time". Soft example: Video decoding. Hard example: Mars rover.