RC4 licensening

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Sun Apr 14 19:40:26 PDT 1996



Jack Mott writes:
> 	Anyone know how much it costs to license RC4

Zero, since the thing was protected by trade secret, not patent, and
it is no longer secret. However, it appears that the name "RC4" is a
trademark and so you should probably use another name. I suggest
"arcfour", which is the name of the known RC4 compatible cipher in SSH.

Perry






More information about the cypherpunks-legacy mailing list