1994-09-15 - RC4 Legal Issues

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From: “Patrick G. Bridges” <bridges@cs.arizona.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 587972617cb62e4cdb3651435eaac40c0f90e1c35dcc7eb4b1934895d61e1006
Message ID: <199409150624.AA01543@hummingbird.cs.arizona.edu>
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UTC Datetime: 1994-09-15 06:24:12 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 14 Sep 94 23:24:12 PDT

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From: "Patrick G. Bridges" <bridges@cs.arizona.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 94 23:24:12 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: RC4 Legal Issues
Message-ID: <199409150624.AA01543@hummingbird.cs.arizona.edu>
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So what does the publication of the reverse engineering of RC4
mean legally? AT&T claimed trade sevret and copyright protection
over code that was pretty well known in the BSDI case...

Can RC4 still be construed as a trade secret or proprirtary to
RSADS and Bizdos or are, as I understand from previous messages,
we free to use RC4 now (ignoring the submarine patent issue)?

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• 1994-09-15 (Wed, 14 Sep 94 23:24:12 PDT) - RC4 Legal Issues - “Patrick G. Bridges” <bridges@cs.arizona.edu>
  • 1994-09-15 (Wed, 14 Sep 94 23:44:47 PDT) - Re: RC4 Legal Issues - Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
    • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 07:47:04 PDT) - RC4 Legal Issues - hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
  • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 00:55:12 PDT) - Re: RC4 Legal Issues - Andrew Brown <a.brown@nexor.co.uk>
    • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 06:36:48 PDT) - Re: RC4 Legal Issues - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
  • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 07:34:16 PDT) - RC4 Legal Issues - hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
    • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 11:06:11 PDT) - Re: RC4 Legal Issues - Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
      • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 11:18:24 PDT) - Re: RC4 Legal Issues - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
        • 1994-09-18 (Sat, 17 Sep 94 17:19:54 PDT) - RC4 Legal Issues - hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)