Re: RC4 licensening
At 18:08 4/14/96, Jack Mott wrote:
Hello Cypherworld, Anyone know how much it costs to license RC4 or how RSA has been handling the whole situation?
Who cares how much it costs to license RC4. Just use the fully compatible freeware RS4 (I believe?) code. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.
On Sun, 14 Apr 1996, Lucky Green wrote:
At 18:08 4/14/96, Jack Mott wrote:
Hello Cypherworld, Anyone know how much it costs to license RC4 or how RSA has been handling the whole situation?
Who cares how much it costs to license RC4. Just use the fully compatible freeware RS4 (I believe?) code.
Well, if you're using RC4, you're probably using some sort of public-key based key exchange, which you're probably going to need to licence, and BSAFE is the easiest way to do that, so RC4 is pretty much a freebie 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
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