In cryptography, FEAL (the Fast data Encipherment ALgorithm) is a block cipher proposed as an alternative to the Data Encryption Standard (DES), and designed to be much faster in software. The Feistel based algorithm was first published in 1987 by Akihiro Shimizu and Shoji Miyaguchi from NTT. The cipher is susceptible to various forms of cryptanal... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEAL
Fe'al adjective [ Old French feal , feel , feeil , fedeil , French fidèle , Latin fidelis faithful, from fides faith. See Faith .] Faithful; loyal. [ Obsolete] Wright. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/14