A New Variant of RC4 Stream Cipher
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RC4 was used as an encryption algorithm in WEP(Wired Equivalent Privacy) protocol that is a standardized for 802.11 wireless network. A few attacks followed, indicating certain weakness in the design. In this paper, we proposed a new variant of RC4 stream cipher. The new version of the cipher does not only appear to be more secure, but its keystream also has large period, large complexity and good statistical properties. Keywords—Cryptography, New variant, RC4, Stream Cipher.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009