At 01:46 PM 2/24/96 GMT, aba@atlas.ex.ac.uk wrote:

I don't see any stigma attached with IPG admitting they have a PRNG seeded with a key, and XORing the PRNG stream with the data - this is exactly what RC4 does.

From now, instead of saying "RC4" let us say "PC1, (formerly known as RC4)"

That will teach them to trademark names. We will forget their names. The net views intellectual property rights as damage and routes around them. 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com