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Re: TLS 1.0 "draft-ietf-tls-protocol-01.txt" Now Available

From: Kevin Steves <stevesk@nsr.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 09:42:17 -0800 (PST)
To: Tom Libert <libert@gradient.com>
Cc: "David P. Kemp" <dpkemp@missi.ncsc.mil>, ietf-tls@w3.org
Message-Id: <Pine.HPP.3.95.970307092934.4009A-100000@rush.nsr.hp.com>
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Tom Libert wrote:
> At 08:55 AM 3/7/97 -0500, David P. Kemp wrote:
> >  I noticed that the draft still contains references to ciphersuites
> >including the unpublished algorithms RC2 and RC4.
> 
> I believe RC2 is still a trade secret, but RC4 was leaked to the Cypherpunks
> list in September, '94.  The algorithm is described in Chapter 17 of Bruce
> Schneier's "Applied Cryptography", 2ed.

Peter Gutmann posted an article to sci.crypt on Feb 11 1996 describing
RC2.  Eric Young implemented his RC2 library from that article.

See:
	crypto/rc2/rrc2.doc
	doc/rc2.doc

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