A few weeks ago, Peter Gutmann wrote:
Do a DejaNews search for the subject "Specification for Ron Rivests Cipher
No.2" (I didn't call it RC2 :-) posted to sci.crypt on 11 Feb 1996,
message-ID <4fk39f$f70(_at_)net(_dot_)auckland(_dot_)ac(_dot_)nz>.
Last night, I decided to look at the rrc#2 algorithm in detail.
So I searched back through my personal ietf-smime mailing list archives
and found Peter's note, a portion of which is quoted above.
I then went to DejaNews to search for the aforementioned articles.
Neither article is there. The followups are there, but not
the original articles. I tried searching AltaVista also, but
didn't find the articles there either.
I leave it to list members to form their own conclusions.
Keith