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Re: The unmentionable algorithm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodney Thayer)
Mon Apr 21 09:43:13 1997
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 10:05:23 -0400
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Rodney Thayer <rodney@sabletech.com>
current thinking on the IETF draft is to call it 'arcfour', the name the
SSH people use. The "R-word" isn't trade marked anywhere I can find, or
copyrighted, but people want to be conservative.
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>> 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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