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
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Christopher Morrow wrote:
I'm not sure that the manholes == atm discussion is valid, but in the
end the same thing is prone to happen to the manholes, there isn't
going to be a unique key per manhole, at best it'll be 1/region or
1/manhole-owner. In the end that key is
Joe Greco wrote:
My point was more the inverse, which is that a determined, equipped,
and knowledgeable attacker is a very difficult thing to defend against.
The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist published
recently in Wired was a good read on that subject:
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