Fwd: Re: RC6 legal status

Rodney Thayer (rodney@unitran.com)
Sat, 08 Aug 1998 21:06:54 -0400

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nice try, but ARCFOUR is an equivalent of RC-4, so you have essentially the same problem.

>Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 19:17:49 +0300 (EEST)
>From: Berke Durak <berke@gsu.linux.org.tr>
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>Subject: Re: RC6 legal status
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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/
>PGP bits/keyID: 2047/F203A409 fingerprint: 44780515D0DC5FF1:BBE6C2EE0D1F56A1
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