Re: New paper on Security and Obscurity

[stephane nasdrovisky <stephane.nasdrovisky () paradigmo com>]

This not so new info may bring some lights : 
http://www.fact-index.com/a/au/auguste_kerckhoffs.html : "... the 
security of a cryptosystem must depend only on the key, not on the 
secrecy of any other part of the system."

Peter Swire wrote:

> “full disclosure” and computer security:
>
>         http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=531782
>
>         The paper begins by analyzing the
> cliché that “there is no security through obscurity.”  It observes that the
> traditional military and intelligence cliché is that “loose lips sink
> ships.”
>  

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