"Single picket fence" -- doesn't work without a lot of explaining.
The one I usually have usually heard is the obvious and intuitive "locking the door when the window is open". (ie fixating on quality of dead-bolt, etc on the front door when the window beside it is _open_!) Adam On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 04:27:51PM -0400, John Denker wrote: > Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > >We need a term for this sort of thing -- the steel tamper > >resistant lock added to the tissue paper door on the wrong vault > >entirely, at great expense, by a brilliant mind that does not > >understand the underlying threat model at all. > > > >Anyone have a good phrase in mind that has the right sort of flavor > >for describing this sort of thing? > > In a similar context, Whit Diffie once put up a nice > graphic: A cozy little home protected by a picket fence. > he fence consisted of a single picket that was a mile > high ... while the rest of the perimeter went totally > unprotected. > > So, unless/until somebody comes up with a better metaphor, > I'd vote for "one-picket fence". --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]