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