17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Simon Spero wrote:
On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 10:19 AM 2/24/96 -0800, jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
From now, instead of saying "RC4" let us say "PC1, (formerly known as RC4)" .. Every time you say RC4 without saying "Trademark of some bunch of lawyer scum" you theoretically break the lawyer made law. So let us stop doing it. Serve them right.
You can always call it "Ron's Code 4" or "Rivest's Code 4" or whatever.
Call it "Prince"
Call it "the cipher formerly known as 'RC4'" --- "Man did not enter into society to become worse than he was before, nor to have fewer rights than he had before, but to have those rights better secured." --- Thomas Paine 1791