NAME
Crypt::RC4::XS - Perl implementation of the RC4 encryption algorithm
SYNOPSIS
use Crypt::RC4::XS;
# Functional Style
my $encrypted = RC4($passphrase, $plaintext);
my $decrypted = RC4($passphrase, $encrypted);
# OO Style
my $cipher = Crypt::RC4->new($passphrase);
my $encrypted = $cipher->RC4($plain_text);DESCRIPTION
This module XS implementation of the RC4 algorithm, developed by RSA Security, Inc. Here is the description from Wikipedia website:
In cryptography, RC4 (also known as ARC4 or ARCFOUR meaning Alleged RC4, see below) is the most widely-used software stream cipher and is used in popular protocols such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) (to protect Internet traffic) and WEP (to secure wireless networks). While remarkable for its simplicity and speed in software, RC4 is vulnerable to attacks when the beginning of the output keystream is not discarded, or a single keystream is used twice; some ways of using RC4 can lead to very insecure cryptosystems such as WEP.
EXPORT
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Hiroyuki OYAMA, <oyama@module.jp>
LICENSE
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.