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repair the ARC4 story; ok jmc djm millert

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deraadt 16 years ago
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.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.26 2008/06/09 06:04:02 jmc Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.27 2008/12/23 18:31:02 deraadt Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright 1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de>
.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
.\" Manual page, using -mandoc macros
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: June 9 2008 $
.Dd $Mdocdate: December 23 2008 $
.Dt ARC4RANDOM 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
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Because it was a trade secret, it obviously could not be patented.
A clone of this was posted anonymously to USENET and confirmed to
be equivalent by several sources who had access to the original cipher.
Because of the trade secret situation, RSA Data Security, Inc. can do
nothing about the release of the ARC4 algorithm.
Because of the trade secret situation, RSA Data Security, Inc. could
do nothing about the release of the
.Ql Alleged RC4
algorithm.
Since
.Pa RC4
used to be a trade secret, the cipher is now referred to as
was trademarked, the cipher is now referred to as
.Pa ARC4 .
.Pp
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