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Subject: Re: RC4 - To license or not?
From: Secret Squirrel (secret_squirrelnym.alias.net)
Date: Sun Oct 22 2000 - 08:14:02 CDT

> Apparently, even among IT professionals, it is necessary <sigh> to
> occasionally announce that RSA does NOT require an OEM or an enterprise
> customer to license all the BSAFE ciphers and protocols -- there are, mind
> you, eight distinct and specialized BSAFE crypto toolkits from RSA -- when
> all a poor Developer wants is RC4.
>
> Such is the depth of the FUD piled up around RC4 -- like tinder
> and faggots stacked at the feet of a condemned witch no one hates enough to
> burn.

Does anyone else feel like they need to take a bath after reading Vin
McLellan's oily rhetoric?

His defenses of RSA and the other companies he consults for do little
to advance their public relations. The world he inhabits seems to
have few connections to the reality that the rest of us deal with.
Companies considering employing McLellan's rhetorical skills on their
behalf ought to think again.