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

To: Tom Libert <libert@gradient.com>
Subject: Re: TLS 1.0 "draft-ietf-tls-protocol-01.txt" Now Available
From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 14:12:17 -0800
CC: "David P. Kemp" <dpkemp@missi.ncsc.mil>, ietf-tls@w3.org
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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 including the unpublished algorithms RC2 and RC4.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.

Not leaked.  Reverse engineered.  And RC2 was also reverse engineered
some months ago.

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