Encryption

[Dale Strickland-Clark]

Paul Rubin <phr-n2002a at nightsong.com> wrote:

>If the data volume isn't too large and the security requirements
>aren't too intense, you can code RC4 in Python and get the other end
>to configure Arcfour encryption into Mcrypt, and do all the decryption
>in pure Python.  That's probably the easiest approach.  Otherwise you
>have to either get python-mcrypt working under Windows, or find some
>other library that works under Windows.
>
>I coded RC4 in Python a few months ago and it ran at about 100
>kbytes/sec on my P3-750, if that's of any help.  I don't know if
>that's fast enough for your application.  A C implementation would run
>at tens of megabytes/sec.

Thanks. Stuff to think about.
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Dale Strickland-Clark
Riverhall Systems Ltd