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Re: Fiber cut in SF area
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:38:43 +0200 (CEST)
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Joe Greco wrote:
Public key crypto is, pretty much by definition, reliant on the obscurity of private keys in order to make it work.
In security terms, public key crypto is not "security by obscurity", as the obscurity part is related to how the method works, and the key is secret. So "openssh" is definitely not "security by obscurity", as anyone with programming knowledge can find out exactly how everything works, and the only thing that is a secret is the private key generated.
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike () swm pp se
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