Apparently some folks skipped class the day Kerchhoffs'
Principle was covered.
While this is obvious to the oldtimers, I had to look Kerkhoffs principle
( and found that it is the old injunction against security by obscurity ).
So for the benefit of those who are as clueless as me:
The Handbook of Applied Cryptography ( menezes et al ) is available online at
http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/
My apologies if the other list members were aware of this.
There is also an interesting Lecture Notes on Cryptography by Goldwasser
and M. Bellare at :
You are coming at this from a software/computer mindset that just isn't
applicable to this sort of physical world security.
Matt's paper was about _locks_.
In case you have forgotten, the title was Cryptology and Physical Security:
Rights Amplification in Master-Keyed Mechanical Locks.
To
Here's a little story: this week I learned that one of our valuable
security doctoral candidates doesn't vote, and doesn't want to learn
about or discuss politics and the political implications of what she does.
Sounds very sensible to me.
Leave the voting to those who care.
One of my
