From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 09:09:02 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: FYI: More on WebTV security
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From: Pablo Calamera <pablo@microsoft.com>
To: "'mac-crypto@vmeng.com'" <mac-crypto@vmeng.com>
Subject: FYI: More on WebTV security
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:34:14 -0700
Sender: <mac-crypto@vmeng.com>
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Don't know if you've seen this, but we were recently granted a license to
ship 128-bit RC4 in our product.
No key recovery, no key escrow.  Here's the fluff:

	http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1998/Oct98/EncryptionPR.htm

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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'