On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:15:32PM +0000, Jim Darby wrote:
> >     - removed Sapphire
> 
> Why so? Is there some problem?

It's not worth the trouble of maintaining it, since there are better 
alternatives available, and nobody is using it anyway.

> As a slight aside, while I'm sending some e-mail, I've noticed a while back 
> that some of the stream ciphers (seal and MARC4) seem to ``run out'' after a 
> certain amount of data has been through them (1032 bytes). Am I missing 
> something? More specifically, the decryption stream is full of zeros. Also the 
> encrypted stream contains all zeros from the second to fourth output K 
> repeatedly. In other words, encrypting produces a stream of encoded for 1K 
> then zeros for 3K repeatedly. Are seal and MARC4 only valid for 1K of input?

That shouldn't happen. Please send me some code to reproduce this 
behavior.

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