Re: RC6 legal status

Berke Durak (berke@gsu.linux.org.tr)
Fri, 7 Aug 1998 19:17:49 +0300 (EEST)

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Thanks to all of you (P.G., P.E.M, B.S and J.G.) who have
answered my question. As everyone seems unanymous on this,
(i.e. that RC6 would be patent-free ONLY if it is accepted
as the AES), I #ifdef'ed out all my RC6 routines from the
source, and replaced it with arcfour.

The PRNG will be used for a freeware (GPL) tool.
Would it be legal to leave the RC6 routines #ifdef'ed this
way, with a diclaimer saying that it would be illegal
to compile the tool with RC6 enabled unless RC6 is
chosen as the AES ?

And are those RSADSI licenses valid outside the US,
particularly in Turkey ?

Thanks...

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