bugtraq - Re: Packetstorm started a try2crack of A.R.C.S. Algorithm

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Message-ID: <877k3vqn1p.fsf@netris.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:04:18 -0400
From: mhw@...ris.org (Mark H. Weaver)
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Packetstorm started a try2crack of A.R.C.S. Algorithm

Angelo Rosiello <guilecool@....com> writes:
> A.R.C.S., or the Angelo Rosiello and Roberto Carrrozzo Stream
> cipher, is a copyrighted algorithm that the authors have allowed
> http://packetstorm.org sole rights to host and distribute. [...] Be
> forewarned, commercial use of this algorithm is forbidden without
> the Authors' consent.

Algorithms can patented, but they cannot be copyrighted.  Only a
particular expression of an algorithm can be copyrighted.

      Mark