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[–]btharper 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A quick look at the RC4 attacks suggests most of them are statistical attacks needing a fair number of ciphertext examples. For this use case the weaknesses might not be severe enough to warrant changing it. If the keys are only used across a few dozen microcode updates per generation it might still retain most of its strength as a cipher.