Rabbit (eSTREAM) is now apparently Public Domain

To quote from http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/stream/phorum/read.php?1,1244

Rabbit becomes public domain
Posted by: Erik Zenner (IP Logged)
Date: October 6, 2008 09:33AM

Hi all!

On behalf of Cryptico A/S, the company who designed the Rabbit
stream cipher, I'm happy to relay the following:

"Rabbit has been released into the public domain and may be used
freely for any purpose."

So in retrospect, I think that it was a good decision not to make
patent issues a key criterion for the eStream portfolio: The patent
status can change, the algorithmic properties can't.

rossum

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