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Isn't the "SEAL" acronym a bit overloaded in the realm of cryptography? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEAL_(cipher)



Now they can say this is not your father's "military-grade encryption". This is SEAL-grade encryption!


I'd never heard of it, a web search turns up only a handful of mentions, and it's not even the only thing in crypto to be called 'seal'.


I figured it wasn't the only one. People who have gone through Cisco material have an outsize exposure to this particular flavor of SEAL because it's one of the few presented alternatives to AES in their material: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/141879/cisco-sa...




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