[51483] in Cypherpunks
Re: SEAL cipher info requested (something actually list related!)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Wed Mar 6 00:30:31 1996
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: ChristopherA@consensus.com (Christopher Allen)
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 00:21:37 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <v03005302ad621f89a608@[157.22.240.192]> from "Christopher Allen" at Mar 5, 96 05:21:27 pm
Christopher Allen wrote:
| * are there are any links on the web to SEAL?
Ask Altavista.
| * is IBM actively marketing it?
See above. If you can't find it on the web, they're not actively
marketing it. :)
| * what precisely is patent?
| * for how long?
| * has anyone currently licensed it?
| * has anyone tried attacking the algorithm?
| * should we be (the community) be looking at SEAL
| for standards (say as an alternative to RC4?)?
| * is there something better then SEAL available?
How about Blowfish?
Adam
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