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Re: Misty???

To: Bill Stewart <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Misty???
From: Alan <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 01:35:30 -0800 (PST)
cc: Tim May <[email protected]>, Adam Shostack <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
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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"? ]:>

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