Is it just me, or is the snake-oil frequency factor scaling up? We used to get this stuff quarterly, and now it's monthly, if not weekly!

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Yeah, I too have noticed this. Hey kids, heres uncle Pauls Snake oil test. if the post contains any of the following it is slither-squeek material: 1. The word "Proprietary" 2. References to a new algorithm, which hasn`t been seen yet and is "the strongest ever" 3. people who use TM after their alogorithm, this is Snakeoil(TM)(R) 4. People who think cryptographers seeing their algorithm will make it less secure 5. People who have never coded a crypto tool in their life then instead of working on current algorithm implementations re-invent the wheel because they don`t understand how to implement current ciphers. Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk Http://www.fatmans.demon.co.uk/crypt/ "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey" -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6 mQCNAjH9j+cAAAEEAMBvREiQR0ot9dFCO0TiSCSunAYLv2g1Bc6I3bz8FzKXNH53 6mieJf/W4rD+CxJpT0q9RQaaoRtkHJLwbjfK2il3D7mEahMAyqvF/xRJNqkXfhM3 sRJM0Jh43l+W0M5vwokbEbk25/bxWWGspTsLD3YHbzKnG6pOcL5OPIRbv66xAAUR tCdQYXVsIEJyYWRsZXkgPHBhdWxAZmF0bWFucy5kZW1vbi5jby51az4= =riHc -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----