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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"

The latest version of ssh has something named "arcfour, which is a cipher based on a usenet posting in Spring-1995. It is widely believed and has been tested to be equivalent with RC4. (RC4 is a trademark of RSA Data Security." This cipher was added when the RC4 support was removed. Wink, wink. -- Mike Gebis gebis@ecn.purdue.edu