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.

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