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by throwaway507 3989 days ago
Are you sure about that? This attack requires a js exec in browser to generate lots of traffic containing the cookie. It's a little impractical to use in a SIGINT capacity. My bet is still on precalculated DH like logjam attack.

Still the quote from @ioerror is: "RC4 is broken in real time" so that's either hyperbole or there is an attack better than 75 hours still out there.

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NSA has been ahead of the state of art in cryptography, as the past has shown. So perhaps they already have an even more practical attack on RC4 for a long time.
I'd also lean toward Logjam, but I'm biased. :)