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.
