[PATCH] RSA RC4

[Florian Weimer]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

>>> I don't think that RSA will blame the libgcrypt developers for using
>>> the name RC4.
>>
>> It's their trademark, so they have every right to do so.
>
> Libgcrypt might call it "a RC4 implementation", which at least
> according to <http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_5.html> would be
> legal.

In this case, I'm not sure.  RC4 is probably still considered a trade
secret by RSA (the company), and I don't think you can easily claim
that your code implements RC4.

Of course, in the meantime, RSA indirectly admitted that the code
which was posted to Usenet a couple of years ago.  Recently, Papers
started talking about "the RC4 algorithm" instead of "the alleged RC4
algorithm", but I don't think much has changed, at least formally.