NODE 5368b0f8Re: RC4 licensening
shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:03:05 +0800
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.
-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com>
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NODE 79fc989dRe: RC4 licensening
Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:31:30 +0800
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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