Actually, this is a documentation error of sorts. The section SHOULD read
like this:
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It used to be that France and the USA had severe restrictions on the use
of and/or export of cryptography. Fortunately, France repealed its
draconian regulation on the use of heavy-strength cryptography,
Winged Wolf wrote:
I've been able to find no references to any patents on the RC4 algorithm,
but I did find reference to the patents on the IDEA algorithm (which I
don't think is used in SSL, but I may be mistaken). If anyone knows what
patents cover RC4, I'd appreciate knowing them.
I haven't heard of any RC4 patents either.
According to RSA:
RC4 is trade-secret intellectual property of RSA.
Someone "stole" it and posted it to the net.
We reserve the right to come after you.
In the real world:
The cat's out of the bag, RSA knows it, and it
