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‘NOMORE’ attack makes RC4 a little weaker again
No good reason to continue using the stream cipher, yet attacks remain impractical. Researchers from the KU Leuven have presented a new attack against the RC4 stream cipher called ‘NOMORE’, which is short for Numerous Occurrence MOnitoring & Recovery Exploit. While it is really good research, and while it re-emphasises the point that the cipher…