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

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including the unpublished algorithms RC2 and RC4.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.
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Received on Friday, 7 March 1997 09:49:11 UTC