<allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote in message news:20060628221048.GA17788@yellowpig.yi.org...
That message subject strongly implies that Mr. Allen has no problem with people distributing (potentially modified) versions of the code in that message. On the other hand, There is a good possibility that he does not own the rights to the code.On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:58:59AM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote:/** * 'Alleged RC4' Source Code picked up from the news." * From: allen@gateway.grumman.com (John L. Allen)" * Newsgroups: comp.lang.c" * Subject: Shrink this C code for fame and fun" * Date: 21 May 1996 10:49:37 -0400" */
Anyway, it is very very easy to re-implement arcfour. That is the very reason why that was chosen as the cipher for ciphersaber. In fact, There is an rc4 implementation in the oublic domain, as part of a ciphersaber implmentation available at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040326065243/www.xs4all.nl/~cg/ciphersaber/comp/c.txt