"Several operating systems include arc4random, an API originating in OpenBSD providing access to a random number generator originally based on RC4. In OpenBSD 5.5, released in May 2014, arc4random was modified to use ChaCha20.[11][12] As of January 2015, implementation of arc4random in NetBSD[13][14] also uses ChaCha20, however, implementation of arc4random in FreeBSD,[15] Linux's libbsd,[16] and Mac OS X[17] are still based on RC4." Sourced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC4
If you point out to your lawyers that SQLite is not doing anything that Apple's OS X is doing, you may get some traction as well. -----Original Message----- From: sqlite-users-boun...@mailinglists.sqlite.org [mailto:sqlite-users-bounces at mailinglists.sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Richard Hipp Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 10:11 AM To: General Discussion of SQLite Database Subject: Re: [sqlite] Lawyers, encryption, and RC4 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 _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users at mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
