Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net! europa.eng.gtefsd.com!swiss.ans.net!newstf01.news.aol.com! newsbf01.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: bl...@aol.com (Blue J) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: When was RC4 posted? Date: 6 Dec 1994 18:35:51 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 6 Sender: ne...@newsbf01.news.aol.com Message-ID: <3c2sgn$a7k@newsbf01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf01.news.aol.com Can someone recall the exact date that RC4 was posted? I'm doing some research. thanks, Jonathan Bird
Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!raph From: ra...@kiwi.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Raph Levien) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: When was RC4 posted? Date: 7 Dec 1994 01:24:03 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3c32rj$b1j@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3c2sgn$a7k@newsbf01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu In article <3c2sgn$a...@newsbf01.news.aol.com>, Blue J <bl...@aol.com> wrote: >Can someone recall the exact date that RC4 was posted? I'm doing some >research. The famous event was the anonymous post of the alleged RC4 sources to the cypherpunks mailing list the evening of Fri 9 Sep 1994. Coincidentally, this was the eve of the cypherpunks meeting, so we all got to talk about it then. Later, there were stories in the NYT and WSJ. It was not posted to Usenet until perhaps a couple of weeks later, again using an anonymous remailer. However, this is not the complete story. Someone (I don't remember who) has made the claim that RC4 was described some months earlier in a lecture in England. The code was posted to some UK-specific crypto newsgroup. For whatever reason, this created no stir at the time. If your research leads to anything concrete (like a paper), I'd like to see it. Raph
Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!demon!cs.berkeley.edu!raph Newsgroups: sci.crypt From: ra...@cs.berkeley.edu (Raph Levien) Subject: Re: When was RC4 posted? References: <3c2sgn$a7k@newsbf01.news.aol.com> <3c32rj$b1j@agate.berkeley.edu> <9412070128.AA16384@monty.rand.org> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 09:40:38 +0000 Message-ID: <199412070140.RAA22323@kiwi.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: use...@demon.co.uk Lines: 20 Jim Gillogly writes: > In article <3c32rj$b...@agate.berkeley.edu> you write: > >the cypherpunks mailing list the evening of Fri 9 Sep 1994. > > > >It was not posted to Usenet until perhaps a couple of weeks later, > > 13 Sep 94 -- it just <seemed> like a couple of weeks. > -- > Jim Gillogly > Highday, 17 Foreyule S.R. 1994, 01:28 Oh yeah, you're right. For remailer trivia buffs, the release to the cpunks list was done with the jpunix remailer, creating a brief panic for John Perry, who runs that remailer. The sci.crypt post was sent through the vox remailer. The code is presently available from: ftp://ftp.dsi.unimi.it/pub/security/crypt/code/rc4.revealed.gz ftp://ftp.dsi.unimi.it/pub/security/crypt/code/rc4.schneier.test.gz Raph
Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net! vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr! univ-lyon1.fr!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!not-for-mail From: vinc...@c700-2.sm.dsi.unimi.it (david vincenzetti) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: When was RC4 posted? Date: 16 Dec 1994 18:51:53 +0100 Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University Lines: 11 Message-ID: <3csk3p$c8q@c700-2.sm.dsi.unimi.it> References: <3c2sgn$a7k@newsbf01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: c700-2.sm.dsi.unimi.it bl...@aol.com (Blue J) writes: >Can someone recall the exact date that RC4 was posted? I'm doing some >research. Available in the following directory: ftp://ftp.dsi.unimi.it/pub/security/crypt Regards, David