Re: the art of locksmithing

["George Georgalis" <george () galis org>]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 01:17:49PM -0600, James Longstreet wrote:
> Rudimentary Treatise on the Construction of Locks, Charles Tomlinson,
> 1853.
>
> http://www.deter.com/unix/papers/treatise_locks.html
>
> My favorite line is as follows:
> "Rogues are very keen in their profession, and already know much more than
> we can teach them respecting their several kinds of roguery."

Thanks! Not the exact presentation I was looking for but this is the
author I was tracking down.

In the course of search I found these interesting links: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27_law
Auguste Kerckhoffs
In cryptography, Kerckhoffs' law (also called Kerckhoffs' assumption,
axiom or principle) was stated by Auguste Kerckhoffs in the 19th
century: a cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the
system, except the key, is public knowledge.

http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/crypto/mi0611.htm
The Ideal Cipher
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/crypto/jscrypt.htm
A Cryptographic Compendium

http://petitcolas.net/fabien/kerckhoffs/#english
http://petitcolas.net/fabien/kerckhoffs/la_cryptographie_militaire_i.htm
JOURNAL DES SCIENCES MILITAIRES.  Janvier 1883.  LA CRYPTOGRAPHIE MILITAIRE.
? La cryptographie est un auxiliaire puissant de la tactique militaire. ?
(G?n?ral Lewal, ?tudes de guerre.)

// George


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