[48964] in Cypherpunks
Re: RC2 Source Code - Legal Warning from RSADSI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam philipp)
Fri Feb 2 00:42:54 1996
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 21:39:53 -0800
To: SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu>
From: Adam philipp <adam@rosa.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 09:51 PM 2/1/96 -0500, you wrote:
>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...
Although it has not been completely settled that disassembly is a
legitimate form of reverse engineering, the trend has been to consider the
two equivalent. So, whoever posted RC2 had at least a good idea of how to
present it.
I don't think it would be be a good idea for them to come out and sue RSA
for libel for the accusation that it was misappropriated however.
Adam, Esq.
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