From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:31:30 +0800
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: RC4 licensening
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On Sun, 14 Apr 1996, Lucky Green wrote:

> At 18:08 4/14/96, Jack Mott wrote:
> >Hello Cypherworld,
> >        Anyone know how much it costs to license RC4 or how RSA has been
> >handling the whole situation?
> 
> Who cares how much it costs to license RC4. Just use the fully compatible
> freeware RS4 (I believe?) code.

Well, if you're using RC4, you're probably using some sort of public-key 
based key exchange, which you're probably going to need to licence, and 
BSAFE is the easiest way to do that,  so RC4 is pretty much a freebie

Simon

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