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Re: Remember, RC4 is now PC1
Simon Spero wrote:
>
> On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Bill Stewart wrote:
>
> > At 10:19 AM 2/24/96 -0800, [email protected] 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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