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Snake oil salespeople may use "technobabble" to sell their product since cryptography is a complicated subject. [2] "Unbreakable" Claims of a system or cryptographic method being "unbreakable" are always false (or true under some limited set of conditions), and are generally considered a sure sign of snake oil. [1] "Military grade"
Snake oil is a term used to describe deceptive marketing, health care fraud, or a scam. Similarly, snake oil salesman is a common label used to describe someone who sells, promotes, or is a general proponent of some valueless or fraudulent cure, remedy, or solution. [ 1 ]
Finally, the term provable security is sometimes used by sellers of security software that are attempting to sell security products like firewalls, antivirus software and intrusion detection systems. As these products are typically not subject to scrutiny, many security researchers consider this type of claim to be selling snake oil.
Snake oil (cryptography) In cryptography, snake oil is a term used to describe commercial cryptographic methods and products which are considered bogus or fraudulent. The name derives from snake oil, one type of quack medicine widely available in 19th Century United States. [224] [225] Subtle body [226]
An explanation of why, when hearing that a piece of encryption software uses a "one-time pad", most cryptographers burst into peals of hysterical laughter (cf. Snake oil (cryptography). Maybe instructions on how to make a pad by hand. Section on quantum/post quantum crypto. (if somebody could look it over that would be great) Cite uncited sections
“There's a lot of snake oil out there,” University of Maryland professor of computer science Hal Daumé told Yahoo Finance. “Companies are selling how the technology works rather than what ...
One of my favorite scenes in Man on the Moon occurs near the end: Andy Kaufman, played by Jim Carrey, is in the Philippines, awaiting a miracle treatment for the cancer that is killing him.
It's in a strange bulleted format that needs to be converted to proper sectioning. Also there seems to be some kind of NPOV dispute. Could probably use more linkage/wikification. And it needs a picture if possible. Dmcdevit 00:52, 10 May 2005 (UTC) Added to User:Khamsin/Desk Dmcdevit 00:52, 10 May 2005 (UTC)