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Re: ciphers published as IETF documents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodney Thayer)
Sat Jun 28 13:40:14 1997
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 12:30:32 -0400
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Rodney Thayer <rodney@sabletech.com>
There have also been documents published on what in the IETF is called
"ARCFOUR".
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>From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
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>Subject: Re: <fw> RSA publishes RC2 for IETF Review
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>>> 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.
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