Re: The Mathematics of Relative Security

[Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 11:01:56AM -0700, Crispin Cowan wrote:

| More succinctly, if you ask the question "am I secure?" in a highly 
| rigorous fashion, the likely answer is "Hell no" :)

This is very true, but asking the question in a rigorous fashion may
lead to asking other useful questions, like "What choices have we made
that make us insecure?" and "Are there changes we can make that will
change the answer?"

Of course, the answer to the second question is also "Hell no." :)

Adam
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