From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 7 16:42: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4292E37B543 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 16:42:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id QAA01777; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 16:42:02 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id QAA13337; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 16:42:02 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id RAA19171; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 17:41:57 -0700 Message-ID: <38C5A1DF.664AD1DB@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 17:42:07 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Polstra Cc: archie@whistle.com Subject: Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing) References: <200003071834.KAA41887@bubba.whistle.com> <200003072300.PAA90662@vashon.polstra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Polstra wrote: > > In article <200003071834.KAA41887@bubba.whistle.com>, > Archie Cobbs wrote: > > > 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? I thought RC4 was trademarked by Honda in the USA??? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message