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Re: TLS 1.0 "draft-ietf-tls-protocol-01.txt" Now Available
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including the unpublished algorithms RC2 and RC4.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
from the SSLeay distribution.
References: