From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:55:26 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Remember, RC4 is now PC1 (fwd)
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960227054213.008b030c@mail.teleport.com>
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At 09:08 PM 2/26/96 -0500, you wrote:

>The latest version of ssh has something named "arcfour, which is a
>cipher based on a usenet posting in Spring-1995.  It is widely
>believed and has been tested to be equivalent with RC4.  (RC4 is a
>trademark of RSA Data Security."

Then they will get sued by SeaWare saying it conflicts with their trademark
for .arc format compression.

Maybe someone should go into the business of "Trademark Collision
Insurance(tm)".  It seems that no matter what you do, everything(tm) is
trademarked nowadays.  

(TCMAY(tm) and "Cypherpunks(tm)" are a trademark of "Tentacles R Us(tm)", a
division of "Evil Incarnate International(tm)".)

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