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💡 NAME

EVP_CIPHER-RC4 — The RC4 EVP_CIPHER implementations

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
🔐 Encrypt data with RC4	openssl enc -rc4 -e -in plain.txt -out cipher.bin -K	Encrypt a file using the RC4 stream cipher with a raw hexadecimal key
🔓 Decrypt data with RC4	openssl enc -rc4 -d -in cipher.bin -out plain.txt -K	Decrypt a file encrypted with RC4
📋 List available RC4 algorithms	openssl list -cipher-algorithms | grep -i rc4	Show all RC4-related cipher names supported by the legacy provider
⚙️ Use EVP API for RC4 encryption	EVP_EncryptInit_ex(ctx, EVP_rc4(), NULL, key, iv)	Initialize an EVP cipher context for RC4 encryption

📝 Description

Support for RC4 symmetric encryption using the EVP_CIPHER API.

🏷️ Algorithm Names

The following algorithms are available in the legacy provider:

• RC4
• RC4-40
• RC4-HMAC-MD5

⚙️ Parameters

This implementation supports the parameters described in PARAMETERS in EVP_EncryptInit(3).

📚 See Also

• provider-cipher(7)
• OSSL_PROVIDER-legacy(7)

©️ Copyright

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Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html.

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