On 8/11/15, Eric Hill <Eric.Hill at jmp.com> wrote:
>
> We're getting some pushback from our lawyers suggesting that SQLite's use of
> RC4 even just to generate random numbers is, in their minds, encryption for
> export purposes.

No.

The RC4 encryption algorithm consists of three subcomponents:

(1) Key management logic
(2) The pseudo-random number generator (PRNG)
(3) The encoder/decoder

SQLite only implements (2).  It omits (1) and (3).  And hence, the RC4
kernel inside of SQLite cannot be used for encryption.

-- 
D. Richard Hipp
drh at sqlite.org

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