From 8c92dcededfd6dda22940bfc0c6e29b294b73938 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kjell <> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 19:04:58 +0000 Subject: RC4 is a trademark. Rest of text left intact. --- src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 b/src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 index d8e0f8cda6..bd2a371a18 100644 --- a/src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 +++ b/src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.17 2000/12/21 14:07:41 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.18 2005/06/07 19:04:58 kjell Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright 1997 Niels Provos .\" All rights reserved. @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ automatically initializes itself. An algorithm called .Pa RC4 was designed by RSA Data Security, Inc. -It was considered a trade secret, but not trademarked. +It was considered a trade secret. 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. -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g6feb