Remember, RC4 is now PC1

Simon Spero ses at tipper.oit.unc.edu
Mon Feb 26 16:49:58 PST 1996


On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Bill Stewart wrote:

> At 10:19 AM 2/24/96 -0800, jamesd at echeque.com wrote:
> >>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"

Simon
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