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

From: Tom Libert <libert@gradient.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 09:50:23 -0500
Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970307095023.009723a0@indy.gradient.com>
To: dpkemp@missi.ncsc.mil (David P. Kemp), ietf-tls@w3.org
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including the unpublished algorithms RC2 and RC4.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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