Re: Fwd: Re: RC6 legal status

Berke Durak (berke@gsu.linux.org.tr)
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 20:14:29 +0300 (EEST)

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On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Rodney Thayer wrote:

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

I know, but I have been told that since it is widely used (i.e. in SSH),
RSADSI do not run after it anymore, but that trade mark problems might
still be an issue, and that changing its name to Arcfour would suffice
(as is done in SSH), see the previous posts on CodherPlunks.

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