RE: RC4 license

>I have been told by reliable sources that Patent 4,405,829 expires on 20
>September 2000.
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>John Pawling, [email protected]
>Wang Government Services, Inc.,
>A Getronics Company
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob Smith [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 2:42 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: RC4 license
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>I am planning to commercially release a program that uses SFL. Do I have to
>buy a license from RSA to use the RC2 and RC4 algorithms found in the
>crypto32 library?
>
>Bob



John,
  The RC4 algorithm and the RSA algorithm are two very different 
items.  As far as I know; RC4 is an RSA trade secret and is not 
covered under any patents, or at least not the patent for the RSA 
algorithm.

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