17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
6:17 p.m.
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Bill Stewart wrote:
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.
Then maybe we should refer to FEAL as "Lemon Oil"? ]:> alan@ctrl-alt-del.com | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen | to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys.