User talk:DataWraith

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RC4 Test Vectors

The test vectors listed have one wrong byte, for the 'Wiki' key whether you want to believe it or not. There is no mention of that particular error in the talk pages you linked to, so I'm not sure of your opposition to putting in the correction.

However at this point that's not the problem I'm concerned about - I have my working cipher program so I no longer need correct test vectors. The problem you, and other arrogant users like you create is that because you feel info other people provide is always wrong means people with the right information won't bother to contribute content, much less donate to the site. Hell, I know I'm not going to bother giving back to the community anymore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Goodvikings1 (talk • contribs) 12:33, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to leave a note.

I have to admit that I was slightly prejudiced against the change you made, because it looked a lot like subtle vandalism: edit by an IP address without any contributions, no edit summary, change disagrees with existing consensus. That you just put it back in, in effect saying "It is true! I say so!" did not help either, so I pointed you to the talk page (albeit less politely than I maybe should have).

There was no mention of that particular "error" on the talk page because the contributors agreed with the current value. You could have added a comment/question about the test vector there too -- if your edit is reverted, and you disagree with that, it is usually a good idea to explain your reason for the change on the talk page. See Wikipedia:STATUSQUO.

I took the time to doublecheck, and made sure that my own implementation, which gives a value matching the one in the article (6044db6d41b7e8e7a4d6f9fbd4428354...), was correct, by comparing its output to the official test vectors.

The notion that "users like me" are arrogant is something that happens in your head; please don't assume bad things about other people so quickly. — DataWraith (talk) 14:39, 31 December 2011 (UTC)