Brad Knowles wrote: > At 4:41 PM -0800 2003/02/02, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Donald Knuth seemed to like them well enough to publish the > > algorithm, as part of his discussion on randomness. He *didn't* > > publish RC4, in that same discussion. > > RC stands for Ron's Code. This stuff came after the work that > Diffie Hellman did, for which the patent expired a little while ago. > Did RC4 even exist at the time that Don published that book?
Not the original edition, but yes, for the revised edition, which is only a couple of years old, and, in fact, includes some new algorithms, based on the fact that Fermat's last Theorem has been proved, proving the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture as a side effect, etc.. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
