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1998-01-24 - Re: Misty???

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From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
To: Tim May <ryan@michonline.com
Message Hash: 105d438fee1acef809a2a82bad8de1b16d2db19ee5987f96ed3c2157a3b03bee
Message ID: <3.0.5.32.19980123235513.007ceba0@popd.ix.netcom.com>
Reply To: <199801231500.KAA17132@homeport.org>
UTC Datetime: 1998-01-24 08:26:44 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 16:26:44 +0800

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From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 16:26:44 +0800
To: Tim May <ryan@michonline.com
Subject: Re: Misty???
In-Reply-To: <199801231500.KAA17132@homeport.org>
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At 08:02 AM 1/23/98 -0800, Tim May wrote:
>Yes, I was thinking of FEAL. And even FEAL was not "snake oil," in that the
>inventors of it were not trying to use deception to promote it. (I consider
>this to be part of what "snake oil" is.)

When FEAL was written, it wasn't snake oil.  If anybody tries to use it
today, it _is_ snake oil, because it and a number of variants on it
are well known to be broken.  (Too bad, because it was made to be 
small and light and run on wimpy processors, but there are now other
small fast cyphers around.)
				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF  3C85 B884 0ABE 4639

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