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  1. Newsgroups: sci.crypt
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  3. From: karn@servo.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn)
  4. Subject: Re: Exporting password protection
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec22.060508.7109@qualcomm.com>
  6. Sender: news@qualcomm.com
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  8. Organization: Qualcomm, Inc
  9. References: <1992Dec21.065550.16784@rosevax.rosemount.com> <1992Dec22.030202.13922@meiko.com>
  10. Distribution: usa
  11. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:05:08 GMT
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  14. In article <1992Dec22.030202.13922@meiko.com> philip@meiko.com (Philip Gladstone) writes:
  15. >Is there a published description of these algorithms anywhere?
  16. (referring to RC2 and RC4)
  17.  
  18. No, as far as I know. I read something from RSADSI a few weeks ago
  19. that says RC2 and RC4 are single-key ciphers proprietary to RSADSI,
  20. and that "to maintain their special export status" their designs will
  21. not be released.
  22.  
  23. See if *you* can figure out what this means.
  24.  
  25. Phil
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