EVP_CIPHER-RC4(7ssl)

EVP_CIPHER-RC47ssl

The rc4 evp_cipher implementations

Overview

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).

Releases

3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 12
  2. 13
  3. Arch

From openssl 3.6.5-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.