Re: RC4 in the UK

David Brownell (David.Brownell@Eng)
Wed, 30 Apr 1997 07:41:13 -0700

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 07:41:13 -0700
From: David.Brownell@Eng (David Brownell)
Message-Id: <199704301441.HAA15779@argon.eng.sun.com>
To: Kevin.Hannen@UK, java-security@java0.javasoft.com
Subject: Re: RC4 in the UK

There are lots of legal issues; look at Bruce Schneier's "Applied
Crypto" (2nd ed.) for info on the intellectual property issues, and

ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-thayer-cipher-01.txt

for another hint about how they might be getting resolved.

Re the US export control issues for APIs and code -- I'll be silent
beyond noting that I don't think we can generally export them to you
at this time. These basically aren't engineering questions.

- Dave