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Re: The unmentionable algorithm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Mon Apr 21 14:03:57 1997
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 12:42:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
To: jamesd@echeque.com, coderpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net
> If one used this a commercial product, but refrained from
> calling it RC4, one should be legally on very strong ground.
I know of no large software company (and this includes Digital, HP,
IBM, Microsoft) who feels this way. Actually, I can make a stronger
statement: I know they disagree.
> Have any commercial products used this approach successfully,
> called it something other than and not paid and not been sued?
I cannot imagine any company that is big enough to have their own lawyers
letting this happen.
/r$
