Re: [Gaim-devel] RC4 support

[Ethan B. <ebl...@cs...>]

Nathan Peterson spake unto us the following wisdom:
> I'm working on a protocol that requires RC4 during authentication.=20
> Should I be modifying cipher.c to support RC4?  or should I handle that=
=20
> inside my plugin?

Assuming that you have found a freely licensed RC4 implementation
which can compatibly be merged with GPL code, it should be added to
cipher.c.  RC4 is a common enough cipher (indeed, as someone has
already stated, MySpaceIM may use it) that it will probably be used
elsewhere.

That said, for testing and development, you can build it as an
external cipher and simply register it with the cipher API.

Ethan

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