APM: Crypt::RC4 module (fwd)

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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:13:14 -0600
From: David Bluestein II <dbii at mudpuddle.com>
To: austin-pm at pm.org
Subject: APM: Crypt::RC4 module

Okay-

I've progressed, but aren't understanding something. I tested the 4-line
perl implementation of RC4 algorighm and it was an asymetric cypher (give
it encrypt key and value n and in encrypts, give it decrypt key and n and
it decrypts). Yet the Crypt::RC4 only takes a passphrase, which I gave it
the encrypt key and it decrypts with the encrypt key also.

Does anyone know how to give it the encrypt key and n to encrypt so that
the decrypt key and n works properly? The man page and perldocs for this
module are lacking in that information, I understand the algorithm, but not
how to combine the keyparts to make it work. The one example I found on the
net obviously read the docs and didn't run it, since they used just the
encrypt and decrypt keys, which doesn't work.

Thanks-

David

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