From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 14 22:57:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 703F337B923 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:57:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.3/frmug-2.5/nospam) with UUCP id HAA27928 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 07:57:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix, from userid 101) id 3394E8863; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 07:48:04 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 07:48:04 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing) Message-ID: <20000315074804.A48080@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: hackers@freebsd.org References: <200003071834.KAA41887@bubba.whistle.com> <200003072300.PAA90662@vashon.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200003072300.PAA90662@vashon.polstra.com>; from hackers@freebsd.org on Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 03:00:09PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT/ELF AMD-K6/200 & 2x PPro/200 SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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