[48694] in Cypherpunks
Re: Sad state of affairs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Spero)
Tue Jan 30 13:29:04 1996
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 10:22:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: Mike McNally <m5@dev.tivoli.com>
Cc: bofur@alpha.c2.org, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9601301402.AA15555@alpha>
On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Mike McNally wrote:
>
> bofur@alpha.c2.org writes:
> > It's a pretty sad statement of how poorly this list is functioning when
> > the RC2 source can be publically released but people would rather
> > sling mud over glorified keystroke trappers and rant about Nazi deathcamps.
>
> YIPPPEEE!!! HOORAY!!! YA HOOO!!!!! RC2 IS PUBLIC!!!! GOD BLESS US
> ALL!!! HOORAAAAAAY!!!! YAY!!!!!
>
:-)
THere is no truth in the report that Algorithm choosers were added to
BSAFE so it would be easier to leave RC2 out :-) Assuming this is RC2,
that is...
When someone reverse engineered Prince (the algorithm formerly known as
RC4), that was significant as the code was in widespread use, and was a
nice fast stream cypher, which was pretty much an empty niche. RC2 is
fighting for an already populated area, battling IDEA, 3DES, etc, etc.
Oh yeah, and RC4 is really pretty, whereas RC2, is as ugly as DES and friends
