NODE 7db6efd3Re: Remember, RC4 is now PC1
Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>Tue, 27 Feb 1996 03:08:10 +0800
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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NODE c9f36e8aRe: Remember, RC4 is now PC1
Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>Tue, 27 Feb 1996 08:49:58 +0800
On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Bill Stewart wrote:
> 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.
Call it "Prince"
Simon
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NODE 215b82b9Re: Remember, RC4 is now PC1
Mark Bainter <Mark@adspp.com>Wed, 28 Feb 1996 12:29:19 +0800
Simon Spero wrote:
>
> On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Bill Stewart wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Call it "Prince"
>
Call it "the cipher formerly known as 'RC4'"
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