From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-02-26 19:08:10 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 03:08:10 +0800
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 03:08:10 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Remember, RC4 is now PC1
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At 10:19 AM 2/24/96 -0800, jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
>>From now, instead of saying "RC4" let us say "PC1, (formerly known as RC4)"
..
>Every time you say RC4 without saying "Trademark of some bunch of
>lawyer scum" you theoretically break the lawyer made law. So let us
>stop doing it. Serve them right.
You can always call it "Ron's Code 4" or "Rivest's Code 4" or whatever.
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