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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: need secure OS to entrust millions to
Date: 16 Mar 1996 20:18:20 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:
] In article <4i5a8h$ggt@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:
] >richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:
] >] it's the existence of
] >] a variable key (which *is* from a known search space) that removes a
] >] system from that category.
]
] >What would you call RSA? What would you call DES?
]
] Neither of these is security through obscurity. Perhaps I'm missing
] your point?
I wanted you to call them something other than "security through
obscurity".
"Security through XXX", where XXX != "obscurity && XXX != "secrecy".
What is XXX?
To paraphrase the "hammer metaphor", if all I have is set A and
set B, something that is not a member of set A looks like a
member of set B (another fine example of the excluded middle).
Regards,
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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