[14847] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Crypto Home Shopping Network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Jun 7 08:37:09 1994
To: Eli Brandt <ebrandt@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks list <cypherpunks@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Jun 1994 18:22:43 PDT."
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Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 1994 08:35:08 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Eli Brandt says:
> I dunno whether that's RC4, but RC4 is a stream cipher developed by
> Rivest. It's not patented; instead, RSADSI licenses it only as an
> object module.
I believe you get sources if you get a source license for their stuff.
I may be wrong, but I was going through the process of getting a
license for Lehman Brothers when I was there, and I don't recall
anything about objects only for RC2 and RC4...
Perry
