alleged attack on TLS

[Chris Palmer]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
<nmav at gnutls.org> wrote:

> Unfortunately RC4 is the weakest cipher in TLS. Although no attacks are
> known for RC4 in TLS, I don't know if switching to it is a real solution.

Well, we know AES-CBC has at least the one weakness (although BEAST's
applicability to real attack scenarios may be arguable).

Anyway, Google uses RC4 for performance reasons, and it's by no means
the weak link in the chain. As long as it's not something blatantly
broken like RC4-40, the cipher suite is never the weak link in the
chain...


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