[65654] in Cypherpunks
Re: [Long] A history of Netscape/MSIE problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz)
Tue Sep 17 08:04:51 1996
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 23:49:38 (NZST)
In case anyone's interested, I've finally found the source I used for the
claim that RC2/RC4 were exportable if the details were kept quiet:
"Details about them [RC2 and RC4] have not been published (including by
patenting) in order to maintain their special export status".
-- RSA FAQ, version 1.0, draft 1e, 14 September 1992, p.40.
This makes sense - the NSA wouldn't want the details published to stop non-US
non-crippled versions appearing, and I can't really imagine RSADSI volutarily
not patenting a new algorithm.
Peter.
