Snake oil cryptography is a term coined by Bruce Schneier to describe products that make fantastic claims about security through cryptography.
Snake oil cryptography is a term coined by Bruce Schneier to describe products that make fantastic claims about security through cryptography.
An example of such a product is a USB-stick claiming AES security while the AES encryption is performed in software running within the host and the key is retrieved directly from the memory of the device itself.
You can use this tag to ask about (proprietary) cryptographic algorithms that are present within such devices. This tag may be used for algorithms that are suspected of snake-oil cryptography, and/or are not documented well-enough to make their security claims falsifiable. It's not an accusation of insecurity.
