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A small and insanely fast ARCFOUR (RC4) cipher implementation of Python.
Below is benchmark metrics against 3 major RC4 implementations.
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The whole benchmark code is in ./benchmark.py.
.. note::
arc4 supports multi-threading but it is too fast to ignore the overhead of context-switching, in most cases.
Install from PyPI
.. code:: sh
pip install arc4
Or clone the repo and do install
.. code:: sh
git clone https://github.com/manicmaniac/arc4.git cd arc4 python setup.py install
.. code:: python
from arc4 import ARC4 arc4 = ARC4(b'key') cipher = arc4.encrypt(b'some plain text to encrypt')
Because RC4 is a stream cipher, you must initialize RC4 object in the beginning of each operations.
.. code:: python
arc4 = ARC4(b'key') arc4.decrypt(cipher) b'some plain text to encrypt'
Here is the API reference.
https://arc4.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
.. code:: sh
python -m unittest discover
This software is under the MIT License.
FAQs
A small and insanely fast ARCFOUR (RC4) cipher implementation of Python
We found that arc4 demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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