Is FEAL developed by NTT safe?

Is FEAL developed by NTT safe? Where isn't safe if it is here because it 
isn't safe? 


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At 11:00 PM 1/4/98 PST, Nobuki Nakatuji wrote:
>
>Is FEAL developed by NTT safe? Where isn't safe if it is here because it 
>isn't safe? 

>From what I have read, FEAL is the punching bag of the cryptographic
community.  It has been broken many times by many people at many different
number of rounds. (It seems to be the one that many cryptanalists have cut
their teeth on.)  

The history of FEAL does not inspire a whole lot of confidence, no matter
who is selling it.

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At 11:00 PM -0800 1/4/98, Nobuki Nakatuji wrote:
>Is FEAL developed by NTT safe? Where isn't safe if it is here because it
>isn't safe?
>

FEAL am not safe if not safe here.

(Try using a search engine or Schneier, Nobuki Nakatuji, to answer these
stupid little Zen koans you keep hitting us with.)

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