This chapter contains the copyright notes and acknowledgements for the different ciphers, message digests, etc. The implementation used here was written by Richard De Moliner .
International patents are pending.
There is no license fee required for noncommercial use . This largesse on the part of Cylink was motivated by the reasoning that the company would gain more from new business than it would lose from competition should many new users adopt this publicly available cipher. The implementation used here was written by Richard De Moliner . His sources were used, with small modifications to interface it with this package. The algorithm is hereby placed in the public domain, and can be freely used by anyone.