On 11 Aug 2015, at 3:11pm, Richard Hipp <drh at sqlite.org> wrote: > 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.
That's a far better argument. Can that be made clear in the comments for random.c ? Simon.