Hi, This is a Friday "waste your time" type of question. :-)

I got interested in trying this, after reading Perl module for language portable encryption. Here are 2 versions of RC4, one in c, and one a perl 3-liner (expanded for clarity). Each works fine by themselves, but one won't decrypt the other. I am almost sure the "internal keys" are being changed from what is entered on the command line, to introduce the incompatibilty. Does anyone know enough to change the perl code to be compatible with the c code?

#!/usr/bin/perl -0777 -- # $0 key infile > outfile # symmetric works both ways @k = unpack( 'C*', pack( 'H*', shift ) ); for ( @t = @s = 0 .. 255 ) { $y = ( $k[ $_ % @k ] + $s[ $x = $_ ] + $y ) % 256; &S; } $x = $y = 0; for ( unpack( 'C*', <> ) ) { $x++; $y = ( $s[ $x %= 256 ] + $y ) % 256; &S; print pack( C, $_ ^= $s[ ( $s[$x] + $s[$y] ) % 256 ] ); } sub S { @s[ $x, $y ] = @s[ $y, $x ] } __END__ <code> <p> <code> /* gcc -o rc4 rc4.c */ #include <stdio.h> #define buf_size 1024 typedef struct rc4_key { unsigned char state[256]; unsigned char x; unsigned char y; } rc4_key; #define swap_byte(x,y) t = *(x); *(x) = *(y); *(y) = t void prepare_key(unsigned char *key_data_ptr, int key_data_len, rc4_ke +y *key) { int i; unsigned char t; unsigned char swapByte; unsigned char index1; unsigned char index2; unsigned char* state; short counter; state = &key->state[0]; for(counter = 0; counter < 256; counter++) state[counter] = counter; key->x = 0; key->y = 0; index1 = 0; index2 = 0; for(counter = 0; counter < 256; counter++) { index2 = (key_data_ptr[index1] + state[counter] + index2) % 256; swap_byte(&state[counter], &state[index2]); index1 = (index1 + 1) % key_data_len; } } void rc4(unsigned char *buffer_ptr, int buffer_len, rc4_key *key) { unsigned char t; unsigned char x; unsigned char y; unsigned char* state; unsigned char xorIndex; short counter; x = key->x; y = key->y; state = &key->state[0]; for(counter = 0; counter < buffer_len; counter++) { x = (x + 1) % 256; y = (state[x] + y) % 256; swap_byte(&state[x], &state[y]); xorIndex = (state[x] + state[y]) % 256; buffer_ptr[counter] ^= state[xorIndex]; } key->x = x; key->y = y; } int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { char seed[256]; char data[512]; char buf[buf_size]; char digit[5]; int hex, rd,i; int n; rc4_key key; if (argc < 2) { fprintf(stderr,"%s key <in >out\n",argv[0]); exit(1); } strcpy(data,argv[1]); n = strlen(data); if (n&1) { strcat(data,"0"); n++; } n/=2; strcpy(digit,"AA"); for (i=0;i<n;i++) { digit[2] = data[i*2]; digit[3] = data[i*2+1]; sscanf(digit,"%x",&hex); seed[i] = hex; } prepare_key(seed,n,&key); rd = fread(buf,1,buf_size,stdin); while (rd>0) { rc4(buf,rd,&key); fwrite(buf,1,rd,stdout); rd = fread(buf,1,buf_size,stdin); } }

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In reply to perl encryptions keys vs. c by zentara

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