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Re: Non-PK encryption not vulnerable via low key length?!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John F. Haugh II)
Sat Mar 25 11:18:11 1995

From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
To: smb@research.att.com
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 95 8:18:39 CST
Cc: softtest@wu1.wl.aecl.ca, elfchief@lupine.org, entropy@IntNet.net,
        vishy@sph.umich.edu, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <199503171535.JAA09068@freeside.fc.net>; from "smb@research.att.com" at Mar 17, 95 10:11 am

> RC2 and RC4 are both trade secrets of RSA Data Security, Inc.  A
> bootleg version of RC4 was posted to the net last year; from everything
> I've heard, including some comments from Jim Bidzos, the president of
> RSADSI, it was the real thing.

If they are both trade secrets, then they aren't elligible for patent
protection -- sauce for the gander.

Does anyone on this list have the RC4 source or a pointer to it?
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