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Date:      Wed, 15 Mar 2000 07:48:04 +0100
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)
Message-ID:  <20000315074804.A48080@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <200003072300.PAA90662@vashon.polstra.com>; from hackers@freebsd.org on Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 03:00:09PM -0800
References:  <200003071834.KAA41887@bubba.whistle.com> <200003072300.PAA90662@vashon.polstra.com>

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According to John Polstra:
> I have read in several places that only the name "RC4" is trademarked,
> and that the algorithm itself is not patented.  Is that not the case?

That's right. RC4 (aka arcfour in SSH) was a trade secret (so it was not
patentable) till someone posted code implementing it on USENET a few years
ago... They didn't do that mistake again with RC5/RC6/...
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #78: Sun Feb 27 15:32:39 CET 2000



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