From: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 08:25:30 +0800
To: ChristopherA@consensus.com (Christopher Allen)
Subject: Re: SEAL cipher info requested (something actually list related!)
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Christopher Allen wrote:

|   * are there are any links on the web to SEAL?

Ask Altavista.

|   * is IBM actively marketing it?

See above.  If you can't find it on the web, they're not actively
marketing it. :)

|   * what precisely is patent?
|   * for how long?
|   * has anyone currently licensed it?
|   * has anyone tried attacking the algorithm?
|   * should we be (the community) be looking at SEAL
|     for standards (say as an alternative to RC4?)?
|   * is there something better then SEAL available?

	How about Blowfish?

Adam


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