Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Blue Boar <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dan Kaminsky wrote:
>>> Obscurity is not secrecy.
>> They're the same thing, just different degrees.
>>
>
> Used to think the same, actually. But if you look at what obscurity
> is always used to refer, it's "this ordered system has *so much
> structure* nobody could ever figure it all out". That's a very
> different argumentory path than "there is nothing to figure out, they
> simply mathematically have to know this secret or brute force".
You have chosen "I elect to play by attempting a definition for which
there can be no agreement."
Your question: What's the difference between secret and obscure? Could
you quantify this, say, with a particular number of bits of entropy?
BB
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