From: lmccarth@cs.umass.edu
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 20:13:50 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Subject: Re: Puffer 2.0 Released
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Kent Briggs writes:
[re: Puffer 2.0]
> New for version 2.0 is the addition of a very fast stream cipher,
> PC1.  PC1 operates with a 40-bit encryption key and produces the
> same stream output as RC4, 

Is PC1 a stream cipher implemented in a "clean room", by reference to an 
abstract specification of the algorithm implied by the Alleged-RC4 source
code, that interoperates with RC4-40 ?

-Lewis	"You're always disappointed, nothing seems to keep you high -- drive 
	your bargains, push your papers, win your medals, fuck your strangers;
	don't it leave you on the empty side ?"  (Joni Mitchell, 1972)