At 09:27 AM 10/8/00 -0700, Greg Broiles wrote: >On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 03:12:20AM +0200, Stefan Arentz wrote: > > Real-To: Stefan Arentz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Applied Crypto says this about RC4. > > > > So what's the deal with RC4? It's no longer a trade secret, > > so presumably anyone can use it. However, RSA DSI will almost > > certainly sue anyone who uses unlicensed RC4 in a commercial > > product. THey probably won't win, but they will certainly make it > > cheaper make it cheaper for a company to license than fight. > > > > This was in '96. I do not want to buy a complete BSAFE license. > > It is too expensive and I only need RC4. > > > > Anyone experienced with this? Will they sue? > >No, they almost certainly won't. Over the past few years they've moved away >from their former pugilistic stance and their marketing/sales strategy seems >to focus more on code quality and diversity of platform support rather than >fear. Redhat 7 Deluxe contains an offer for a "free" BSafe SDK for Linux. (Redhat 7 contains a number of crypto tools, including OpenSSL, Kerberos 5 (real, not the damaged version MS ships), OpenSSH, GnuPG, and a bunch of other stuff. A good sign, if they did not ship with a beta version of GCC.) As for RSA marketing... i think they have some serious personal issues they need to seek counselling for. (What is it with the psycho-chick in their ads anyways? Ex-girlfriend? A stab at Dourthy Denning? Some latent BSDi fetish?) --- | Terrorists - The Boogiemen for a new Millennium. | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | | | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com/~alan/ |[EMAIL PROTECTED]|