From: Raph Levien <raph@c2.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 12:23:45 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Alleged-RC2 code posted to sci.crypt
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I'm surprised I haven't seen a mention of this here.

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/**********************************************************************\
* To commemorate the 1996 RSA Data Security Conference, the following  *
* code is released into the public domain by its author.  Prost!       *
*                                                                      *
* This cipher uses 16-bit words and little-endian byte ordering.       *
* I wonder which processor it was optimized for?                       *
*                                                                      *
* Thanks to CodeView, SoftIce, and D86 for helping bring this code to  *
* the public.                                                          *
\**********************************************************************/

[potential trade secret and ITAR violation elided]

   So far, no confirmations, denials, or test vectors posted.

   If true, this removes my biggest objection to S/MIME (leaving all the 
nonbiggest objections in place, of course).

Raph