Discovering an RC4 anomaly through visualization
Dino Schweitzer, Leemon C. Baird · 2006
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.