Sicherheit von RC4

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Ich benutze teilweise diese RC4 Implementation von hagen:

Delphi-Quellcode:

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{                              RC4                           }
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{             Copyright (c) 2004 Hagen Reddmann              }
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unit RC4;

interface


type
  PByteArray = ^TByteArray;
  TByteArray = array[0..32767] of Byte;

type 
  TRC4Context = record
    D: array[Byte] of Byte;
    I,J: Byte;
  end;

procedure RC4Init(var RC4: TRC4Context; const Key: String);
procedure RC4Done(var RC4: TRC4Context);
procedure RC4Code(var RC4: TRC4Context; const Source; var Dest; Count: Integer); overload;
function RC4Code(var RC4: TRC4Context; const Value: String): String; overload;
function RC4Code(const Value, Password: String): String; overload;

implementation


procedure RC4Init(var RC4: TRC4Context; const Key: String);
var
  R,S,T,K: Byte;
  U,L: Integer;
begin
{$R-}
{$Q-}
  L := Length(Key);
  with RC4 do
  begin
    I := 0;
    J := 0;
    for S := 0 to 255 do D[S] := S;
    R := 0;
    U := 0;
    for S := 0 to 255 do
    begin
      if U < L then K := PByteArray(Key)[U] else K := 0;
      Inc(U);
      if U >= L then U := 0;

      Inc(R, D[S] + K);
      T    := D[S];
      D[S] := D[R];
      D[R] := T;
    end;
  end;
end;

procedure RC4Done(var RC4: TRC4Context);
begin
  FillChar(RC4, SizeOf(RC4), 0);
end;

procedure RC4Code(var RC4: TRC4Context; const Source; var Dest; Count: Integer); overload;
var
  S: Integer;
  T: Byte;
begin
  with RC4 do
    for S := 0 to Count -1 do
    begin
      Inc(I);
      T := D[I];
      Inc(J, T);
      D[I] := D[J];
      D[J] := T;
      Inc(T, D[I]);
      TByteArray(Dest)[S] := TByteArray(Source)[S] xor D[T];
    end;
end;

function RC4Code(var RC4: TRC4Context; const Value: String): String; overload;
var
  Count: Integer;
begin
  Count := Length(Value);
  SetLength(Result, Count);
  RC4Code(RC4, Value[1], Result[1], Count);
end;

function RC4Code(const Value, Password: String): String; overload;
var
  RC4: TRC4Context;
begin
  RC4Init(RC4, Password);
  try
    Result := RC4Code(RC4, Value);
  finally
    RC4Done(RC4);
  end;
end;

end.

Mit wie viel Bit wird da verschlüsselt und wie sicher ist diese Verschlüsselung in vergleich zu anderen Verschlüsselungen?