From: Michael J Gebis <gebis@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:42:35 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Remember, RC4 is now PC1 (fwd)
Message-ID: <199602270208.VAA20323@purcell.ecn.purdue.edu>
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> > >>From now, instead of saying "RC4" let us say "PC1, (formerly known as RC4)"
> > >Every time you say RC4 without saying "Trademark of some bunch of 
> > >lawyer scum" you theoretically break the lawyer made law.  So let us 
> > >stop doing it.   Serve them right.
> > 
> > You can always call it "Ron's Code 4" or "Rivest's Code 4" or whatever.
> 
> Call it  "Prince"

The latest version of ssh has something named "arcfour, which is a
cipher based on a usenet posting in Spring-1995.  It is widely
believed and has been tested to be equivalent with RC4.  (RC4 is a
trademark of RSA Data Security."

This cipher was added when the RC4 support was removed.

Wink, wink.

-- 
Mike Gebis  gebis@ecn.purdue.edu