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Re: The unmentionable algorithm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosen)
Sat Apr 19 19:42:30 1997
From: "Mark Rosen" <mrosen@peganet.com>
To: <jamesd@echeque.com>, <coderpunks@toad.com>, <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 18:25:18 -0400
> If however, one called it RC4, one might well be guilty of
> various ill defined commercial crimes. (Stealing the reputation
> of Ron Rivest and RSA Data Security inc)
>
> Have any commercial products used this approach successfully,
> called it something other than and not paid and not been sued?
In Puffer (http://www.execpc.com/~kbriggs), Kent Briggs calls it PC1, and
in my product, Kremlin (URL below), I call it Pseudo-RC4.
Mark Rosen
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