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Subject: Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)
In-Reply-To: <200003072300.PAA90662@vashon.polstra.com> from John Polstra at "Mar 7, 2000 03:00:09 pm"
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John Polstra writes:
> >      I already have code for MPPC/MPPE, minus the proprietary STAC
> >      code and the patented RC4 algorithm,
> 
> I have read in several places that only the name "RC4" is trademarked,
> and that the algorithm itself is not patented.  Is that not the case?

Oops, my mistake.. you are correct as far as I know.

What I should have said was "the non-exportable RC4 algorithm"
because (also AFAIK) it's not exportable so we can't check it into
freefall.

We *can* check it in to the international repository but I don't know
if anyone has done that yet, or if so what the header file looks like.

-Archie

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