On Wed, 14 Sep 1994, Patrick G. Bridges wrote:
Can RC4 still be construed as a trade secret or proprirtary to RSADS and Bizdos or are, as I understand from previous messages, we free to use RC4 now (ignoring the submarine patent issue)?
I just checked the Cryptography Today FAQ from rsa.com and found precious little clues in the section about RC2 and RC4, except for the following: "RC2 and RC4 are proprietary algorithms of RSA Data Security, Inc.; details have not been published" (sic) They claim that RC4 is 10 or more times as fast as DES. Has anyone done any speed trials against libdes yet? Regards, - Andy +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Andrew Brown Internet <asb@nexor.co.uk> Telephone +44 115 952 0585 | | PGP 2.6ui fingerprint: EC 80 9C 96 54 63 CC 97 FF 7D C5 69 0B 55 23 63 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+