Re: Good Algorithm

[Vin McLellan]

        Groggy from lots of wine, rich food, wild women, and little sleep,
Vin McLellan wrote:

>        Rivest invented RC2 in 1987.  It was controlled and licensed as a
>trade secret by RSADSI for many years, but in 1992, Ron published an
>Internet RFC describing it, effectively putting it in the public domain.  

        Sorry, that second date was a  typo!   Ron Rivest published an RFC
detailing and describing RC2 in June, 1997 -- not 1992.  

        I hope this didn't confuse anyone.

        Suerte,
                        _Vin
        

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