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+--[[
+implementation of the RC5 cipher in Lua
+
+03/11/2022
+Sean Smith
+sean@spacealien.xyz
+
+-initialize the variables specified in the paper
+-translate and copy the functions in the appendix of the paper
+--were gonna use static variables of 32bit key for now
+-do key expansion
+
+
+]]
+
+
+