Re: Certifications: Not worth the paper they are printed on?

[David Howe <DaveHowe.Pentest () googlemail com>]

Jay D. Dyson wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, brendan wrote:
>
> > > First off, let's see the URL.
> > at a guess,
> > http://certcities.com/editorial/columns/story.asp?EditorialsID=176&page=9
>
> Thanks for the URL.  After reading that piece, I'm left with the distinct
> impression that the author clearly has some fundamental things
> bass-ackwards.  This impression is borne out in the author's statement
> that he was expecting the exam to "broaden [his] security knowledge."

Well, the comment by Anonymous @ 1/26/07 sounds more reasonable - that
the people setting the exam didn't have fundamental knowledge, but were
just harvesting question sets from the recommended books - the example
given is that s/mime is asymmetric. it isn't, like pgp and practically
every other player in that space, it is a symmetrically encrypted system
with a randomly generated key, said key asymmetrically encapsulated to
the public key of one or more recipients.


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