Queue oil or Snake oil (from the English snake oil) is (mainly within the range of software) the name for a product, which has few or no genuine function, but when miracle drug is marketed for the solution of many problems.

The term "queue oil "comes of to the mythology of the American wild one the west, where miracle-sound appointed "queue oil "as cure for physical defects of all kinds sold.

One finds queue oil software frequently within software ranges, whose technical background for laymen is only with difficulty understandable or much training required. Here windy find easy to customers, by applying their product with many importantly sounding, but insignificant technical terms. Most examples of queue oil software originate therefore from the ranges of cryptography, network security or the performance increase.

Examples

• The company Syncronys Softcorp sold a product named soft RAM 95, which should double the main memory usable under Windows according to advertising statements by compression and accelerate additionally the computer system immensely to 1995. The newspaper c't determined at that time by Disassemblieren of the program that it did not have a function up to some functions, which indicated invented statistics.
• Some personnel of Firewall products at least partial queue oil seems to be. Like that of some of these software packages relatively harmless network traffic as "hacker attack "tituliert, which was repelled, in order to arouse with the buyer the impression, it would be unprotected without the respective product.
• Some coding products recruit also surely sounding, but partly obviously wrong, contradictory or insignificant terms (unknackbares 2048 bits One TimePAD hexadecimal in hexadecimals).

Related links

• c't article over soft RAM 95
• English-language explanation in Bruce Schneiers Cryptogram

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