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Re: TLS 1.0 "draft-ietf-tls-protocol-01.txt" Now Available
Tom and all,
Tom Libert wrote:
>
> At 09:17 AM 3/7/97 -0800, David Brownell -- JavaSoft wrote:
> >> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 10:27:29 -0500
> >> From: dpkemp@missi.ncsc.mil (David P. Kemp)
> >>
> >> Perhaps you should check with RSADSI to see if they still regard RC4 as
> >> an "unpublished work", despite the fact that it leaked out some time ago.
> >
> >I believe the answer is "yes", so anyone (at least in the US) who
> >wants to ship an "RC4-compatible" cipher should have lawyers ready.
> >(The name "RC4" is probably trademarked, regardless of the secrecy
> >of that algorithm.)
>
> >From Schneier, p. 398: "The name is trademarked, so anyone who writes his
> own code has to call it something else....RSA Data Security, Inc. will almost
> certainly sue anyone who uses unlicensed RC4 in a commercial product.
> They probably won't win, but they will certainly make it cheaper for a company
> to license than fight."
>
> RC4 appears to be a strong cipher. The TLS protocol should clearly
> not mandate the use of proprietary ciphers, but neither should it
> prohibit their use.
I agree with this evaluation. It should be included.
> --
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