I'm surprised I haven't seen a mention of this here. Path: agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!slider.bme.ri.ccf.org!kira.cc.uakron.edu!neoucom.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!hermes.oc.com!news.unt.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.nic.surfnet.nl!sun4nl!xs4all!utopia.hacktic.nl!not-for-mail From: anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl (Anonymous) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: RC2 source code Date: 29 Jan 1996 06:38:04 +0100 Organization: Hack-Tic International, Inc. Lines: 182 Sender: remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl Message-ID: <4ehmfs$6nq@utopia.hacktic.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: utopia.hacktic.nl Comments: Hack-Tic may or may not approve of the content of this posting Comments: Please report misuse of this automated remailing service to Comments: <postmaster@utopia.hacktic.nl> /**********************************************************************\ * To commemorate the 1996 RSA Data Security Conference, the following * * code is released into the public domain by its author. Prost! * * * * This cipher uses 16-bit words and little-endian byte ordering. * * I wonder which processor it was optimized for? * * * * Thanks to CodeView, SoftIce, and D86 for helping bring this code to * * the public. * \**********************************************************************/ [potential trade secret and ITAR violation elided] So far, no confirmations, denials, or test vectors posted. If true, this removes my biggest objection to S/MIME (leaving all the nonbiggest objections in place, of course). Raph