Discovering an RC4 anomaly through visualization

Authors:
Dino Schweitzer;Leemon Baird
Affiliations:
United States Air Force Academy CO;United States Air Force Academy CO
Venue:
Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Visualization for computer security
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Visualization can be an effective means for analyzing security data and teaching students different concepts about various security algorithms. At the Air Force Academy, interactive visualizations are used to teach ciphers to students in a cryptography course. In the course of preparing student visualizations about the RC4 cipher characteristics, an anomaly was discovered in the basic encryption algorithm. This paper describes the anomaly and the process of how it was discovered through visualization.