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Perry E. Metzger perry at imsi.com
Tue Jun 7 05:35:20 PDT 1994



Eli Brandt says:
> I dunno whether that's RC4, but RC4 is a stream cipher developed by
> Rivest.  It's not patented; instead, RSADSI licenses it only as an
> object module.

I believe you get sources if you get a source license for their stuff.
I may be wrong, but I was going through the process of getting a
license for Lehman Brothers when I was there, and I don't recall
anything about objects only for RC2 and RC4...

Perry






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