From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 10:40:26 +0800
To: Jack Mott <thecrow@iconn.net>
Subject: Re: RC4 licensening
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Jack Mott writes:
> 	Anyone know how much it costs to license RC4

Zero, since the thing was protected by trade secret, not patent, and
it is no longer secret. However, it appears that the name "RC4" is a
trademark and so you should probably use another name. I suggest
"arcfour", which is the name of the known RC4 compatible cipher in SSH.

Perry