- From: Kevin Steves <stevesk@nsr.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 09:42:17 -0800 (PST)
- To: Tom Libert <libert@gradient.com>
- Cc: "David P. Kemp" <dpkemp@missi.ncsc.mil>, ietf-tls@w3.org
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including the unpublished algorithms RC2 and RC4.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.
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