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Message-ID: <20050729204906.F75285@ubzr.zsa.bet>
Date: Sat Jul 30 02:51:13 2005
From: measl at mfn.org (J.A. Terranson)
Subject: <Cisco Message> Mike Lynn's controversial
	Cisco Security Presentation


On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Jason Coombs wrote:

<cutting to the chase>

> Now, if RC4 had never been used to create a product and had been kept as
> a trade secret, and that secret had been published, then it would not
> have become, automatically, an unencumbered algorithm that could be used
> by anyone with impunity. There being no way other than theft of trade
> secret for a third party to come to know the algorithm, had a court
> order been obtained to halt the spread of the secret the algorithm
> itself could very well have been kept as protectable intellectual
> property until such time as the company that enjoyed a commercial
> advantage through preservation of their RC4 trade secret had concluded
> the public distribution of a product that somebody else could have
> reverse engineered.

The problem here is essentially one of mass distribution.  There are now
*millions* of copies of these "secrets" in general circulation.  Nobody
can assert with a straight face that anything about Lynn's presentation is
not completely and totally within the public view - and irretrievably so.

-- 
Yours,

J.A. Terranson
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