Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you've got room for an IV, you _could_ do something like
> XORing the IV with the key, not the data stream -
> that means that it isn't really using the same algorithm
> for the IV as for the rest of the data stream, but you may not care.
With RC4, it
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This is more of a cryptography question than a coding question,
so I've Cc:d [EMAIL PROTECTED], and you may want to shift the
discussion there.
How small do you need? And how unpredictable?
RC4's pretty small, though it has issues with how you use it.
DES isn't really all that big these days -