Subject: Re: OpenSSL import
To: None <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: tech-security
Date: 06/29/1999 22:12:29
In message <19990629213505.A19923@rek.tjls.com>, Thor Lancelot Simon writes:


> 	* RC4 (fine *if you don't call it RC4*; a trademark issue)
> 	* RC2 (trademark issue, as with RC4)

For RC4, there's still the issue of whether or not the trade secret was 
improperly disclosed.  RC2 was published by Rivest as RFC 2268, which is about
as clean as you can get.