1995-11-02 - Re: Rivest on the Design of RC4

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From: Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com>
To: baldwin <baldwin@RSA.COM>
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UTC Datetime: 1995-11-02 06:30:40 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 14:30:40 +0800

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From: Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 14:30:40 +0800
To: baldwin <baldwin@RSA.COM>
Subject: Re: Rivest on the Design of RC4
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>         Professor Ron Rivest will be presenting a talk titled
> "The Design of RC4" at the RSA Data Security Conference in San Francisco
> (January 17 to 19).  It should be interesting.

What will the legal status of RC4 be after this talk?  Will RSADSI stop 
claiming that RC4 is still protected as a trade secret, or will everyone 
attending the talk be required to sign NDAs?

Wei Dai





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