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A small and insanely fast ARCFOUR (RC4) cipher implementation of Python

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A small and insanely fast ARCFOUR (RC4) cipher implementation of Python.

  • Strongly focused on performance; entire source code is written in C.

  • Thread-safety; you can improve further performance with multi-threading.

  • Easily installable; single file with no dependency, pre-built wheels provided.

Benchmark

Below is benchmark metrics against 3 major RC4 implementations.

Benchmark

The whole benchmark code is in ./benchmark.py.

Install

Install from PyPI

pip install arc4

Or clone the repo and do install

git clone https://github.com/manicmaniac/arc4.git
cd arc4
python setup.py install

Usage

from arc4 import ARC4

arc4 = ARC4('key')
cipher = arc4.encrypt('some plain text to encrypt')

Because RC4 is a stream cipher, you must initialize RC4 object in the beginning of each operations.

arc4 = ARC4('key')
arc4.decrypt(cipher)

Documents

Here is the API reference.

https://arc4.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Testing

python -m unittest discover

License

This software is under the MIT License.

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