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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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