Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

[Ollivier Robert]

According to John Polstra:
> 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?

That's right. RC4 (aka arcfour in SSH) was a trade secret (so it was not
patentable) till someone posted code implementing it on USENET a few years
ago... They didn't do that mistake again with RC5/RC6/...
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