[42695] in Cypherpunks
Re: Rivest on the Design of RC4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wei Dai)
Thu Nov 2 01:01:32 1995
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 21:53:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com>
To: baldwin <baldwin@RSA.COM>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9510018152.AA815247765@snail.rsa.com>
> Professor Ron Rivest will be presenting a talk titled
> "The Design of RC4" at the RSA Data Security Conference in San Francisco
> (January 17 to 19). It should be interesting.
What will the legal status of RC4 be after this talk? Will RSADSI stop
claiming that RC4 is still protected as a trade secret, or will everyone
attending the talk be required to sign NDAs?
Wei Dai
