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Overview of RC4 Stream Cipher by CARLOSMIGUEZ is a document available to read on EtoBox.

RC4 is a stream cipher that was designed in 1987 by Ron Rivest. While it is simple and fast, RC4 has weaknesses that render it insecure. It was commonly used to encrypt wireless communications and HTTPS traffic, but its use is now prohibited in TLS due to vulnerabilities. RC4 works by using a secret internal state and indexes to generate a pseudorandom keystream that is XORed with plaintext to produce ciphertext.

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CARLOSMIGUEZ

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EN