[48956] in Cypherpunks
Re: RC2 Source Code - Legal Warning from RSADSI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N)
Thu Feb 1 21:57:50 1996
From: SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu>
To: adam@rosa.com (Adam philipp)
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 21:51:25 -0500
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <no.id> from "Adam philipp" at Feb 1, 96 09:23:05 pm
> I hope that his code was not stolen, if it was actually stolen and then
> released and we knew that for sure, then trade secret rights would probably
> still apply. However the code was posted anonymously we do NOT know for
> certain that it was MISAPPROPRIATED. As such it may have been reverse
> engineered in manner that does not violate trade secrets and hence it can be
> used. The burden is with RSA to prove that any one person KNEW it was
> misappropriated. That is why we are seeing all these messages flying around
> on the web, RSA attorneys are trying to shut the barn door after the horses
> have left...
The author claims that the code was disassembled. S/he credits "CodeView"
which is Microsoft's debugging/disassembly tool. Of course, this could
just be a cunning ruse...
