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legal status of RC4?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Murray)
Tue Jan 25 14:05:51 2000
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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:45:13 -0800
From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
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Does anyone know the legal status of RC4 in the US?
I know that a cipher purporting to be RC4 was published on
Cypherpunks by Anonymous, and that various crypto packages
have RC4 or "EC4". My question is, has RSA taken anyone to
court in the US for using RC4 without buying a license from RSA?
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Eric Murray www.lne.com/~ericm ericm at the site lne.com PGP keyid:E03F65E5
