Re: Remember, RC4 is now PC1
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. #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com / billstewart@attmail.com +1-415-442-2215 # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs Pager +1-408-787-1281
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" Simon --- They say in online country So which side are you on boys There is no middle way Which side are you on You'll either be a Usenet man Which side are you on boys Or a thug for the CDA Which side are you on? National Union of Computer Operatives; Hackers, local 37 APL-CPIO
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
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