EVP_CIPHER-RC4(7ossl)

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version 3.5.9 · 8 versions
, in alpine 3.23, alpine 3.24

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to EVP_CIPHER-RC4 — The RC4 EVP_CIPHER implementations — from OpenSSL's 7ossl manual. That's the whole name-and-one-liner situation, and it's giving exactly what it says. 💖

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

This page is all about support for RC4 symmetric encryption using the EVP_CIPHER API. no cap, that's the vibe. 🔥

🧚 Algorithm Names

The legacy provider is serving up these algorithm names:

  • "RC4"
  • "RC4-40"
  • "RC4-HMAC-MD5"

🍓 Parameters

This implementation supports the parameters described in "PARAMETERS" in EVP_EncryptInit(3). That's the parameter tea, fr fr. 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO

Copyright 2021 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.

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>.

mwah 💋 this page is from OpenSSL 3.5.9, dated 2026-09-29 — periodt. 🎀

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