Re: RC2 Source Code - Legal Warning from RSADSI
Once lost, trade secret can never be regained. The person(s) responsible can be sued so they never work again :), but it's unclear if RSA can stop anyone using unpublished trade-secret source. At any rate, I'll stop my comparison of the distributed RC2 and the licensed RC2 since RSA's done it for us. :) /r$
On Thu, 1 Feb 1996, Rich Salz wrote:
At any rate, I'll stop my comparison of the distributed RC2 and the licensed RC2 since RSA's done it for us. :)
What if it's just a ruse by them to ID it as RC2? They could have even released a bogus version themselves, and then sent up a hue and cry....
On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, Tony Iannotti wrote:
On Thu, 1 Feb 1996, Rich Salz wrote:
At any rate, I'll stop my comparison of the distributed RC2 and the licensed RC2 since RSA's done it for us. :)
What if it's just a ruse by them to ID it as RC2? They could have even released a bogus version themselves, and then sent up a hue and cry....
There's an easy test.. set up the real RC2 to encrypt data and have this one decrypt it, then reverse the two, use different keys, etc... a few thousand rounds should give a strong indication if this is the true RC2. It doesn't mean that it wasn't rigged to produce weak keys and such, however a closer analysis of the source will point that out. :) ========================================================================== + ^ + | Ray Arachelian |Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness| _ |> \|/ |sunder@dorsai.org|is cleanliness and cleanliness is god-| \ | <--+-->| |liness and god is empty, just like me,| \| /|\ | Just Say |intoxicated with the maddness, I'm in| <|\ + v + | "No" to the NSA!|love with my sadness. (Pumpkins/Zero)| <| n ===================http://www.dorsai.org/~sunder/=========================
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