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RC4 with a Deck of Cards
- tlunch 3y agoWhat is RC4?
- Tomte 3y agoA stream cipher.
- andy81 3y agoOld encryption algorithm, don't use it. Infamous for "kerberoasting", among other exploits.
- beardyw 3y agoIs that - don't use it ... with playing cards?
- pcwalton 3y agoA formerly-popular cipher that works better than you'd expect given its extreme simplicity--simple enough that you can encrypt and decrypt it by hand with a deck of cards. Nowadays it's insecure though, so you should never use it.
- lathiat 3y agoWhen I was trying to learn C at 15 or so I tried to implement Solitaire crypto from cryptonomicon as part of some programming challenge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_(cipher) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitaire_(cipher) Failed but learnt a lot about memory management :)
- anonymousiam 3y agoThere's a "simplified" implementation of it here: https://sos-cer.github.io/sssolitaire/ https://sos-cer.github.io/sssolitaire/
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