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Re: RSA publishes RC2 for IETF Review
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Sat Jun 28 14:28:26 1997
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 97 18:02:18 GMT
From: "William Allen Simpson" <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Cc: rfc-editor@isi.edu
Cc: jis@mit.edu
> REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- In a move to promote
> broad acceptance of a single standard for electronic messaging, RSA
> Data Security, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Security Dynamics
> Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SDTI), today announced that it has
> published a description of its RC2(R) encryption algorithm for
> evaluation by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
>...
> "RSA is pleased to make its intellectual property available to the IETF
> in support of standards," added Steve Dusse, chief technology officer
> of RSA.=20
>
In accordance with the IETF standards process [RFC-2026], I recommend
that the IETF gratefully accept RSA's public transfer of its
intellectual property to the IETF. I propose that we publish Gutmann's
draft (already sent to the RFC Editor) immediately as Informational,
possibly under the title "ArcTwo". And that we forward Rivest's RC2
draft to an IETF WG for evaluation, and make whatever changes we deem
useful before publication as a Proposed Standard.
An IETF Working Group may start from an external specification and
develop it into an Internet specification. This is acceptable if (1)
the specification is provided to the Working Group in compliance with
the requirements of section 10, and (2) change control has been
conveyed to IETF by the original developer of the specification for
the specification or for specifications derived from the original
specification.
WSimpson@UMich.edu
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