RC6 legal status

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Berke Durak (berke@gsu.linux.org.tr)
Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:31:42 +0300 (EEST)

Hello,

I was considering using RC6 as a strong PRNG, however I was told that
RC6 is patented by RSADSI and that this might cause problems in the
future. Since RC6 is actually an AES submission, and since AES requires
the candidate algorithms to be licence-free (or am I wrong?) I thought
it would be ok to use it. Any info ?

Thanks.

PS.I was advised to use RC4 instead.

Berke Durak - berke@gsu.linux.org.tr - http://gsu.linux.org.tr/kripto-tr/
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