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Re: RSA publishes RC2 for IETF Review
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Sat Jun 28 12:18:49 1997
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: colin@nyx.net
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
Reply-To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
X-Charge-To: pgut001
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 20:49:29 (NZST)
>> I love marketing spin. All Hail Dilbert.
>
>Come, now, there are more in that press release. The one that really cracked
>me up was
>
>"RSA is pleased to make its intellectual property available to the IETF in
>support of standards," added Steve Dusse, chief technology officer of RSA.
>
>Uh huh. Right. "The cat got out of the bag on the net last year, and still
>nobody wants it, so here."
The appearance of ietf-draft-gutmann-something-or-other a few weeks ago (a
draft RFC which describes an algorithm which is functionally identical to RC2
but has a non-infringing name) also probably helped a bit :-).
Peter.
