VinCrypt

This even bites the best of us. Phil Zimmermann [...]

PGP 1.0 had Phil's Bass-o-matic cipher, which he subsequently dropped. When I first saw that, I thought to myself, "snake oil," but not in those words. I'm glad that lesson got learned.

I, for one, will never use any crypto system for which the algorithm hasn't been extensively published and scrutinized.

I am in total agreement. Eric