obscurity

Memisyazici, Aras wrote: > John: > > Thank you for your reply. > > Indeed, as I tried to explain in my previous reply, my "suggestion" in > obscurity as a means of securing things, was not meant as ^ ?, rather ...

I often disagree when the so-called experts talk about security in terms of binary decisions.

"The linux kernel group would be the last group of people I would expect to support obscuring helpful messages in an attempt to improve security."Linux in bed with obscurity for security?

What?

Linux filesystem developer Hans Reiser has revealed the location of his wife's corpse to law enforcement officials.

Meanwhile, development on his namesake filesystem appears to be grinding to a halt.

The strong of a cryptographic solution is not recommended to be into the obscurity of the algorithm, the most usefull and most hard to vulnere solutions are public algorithms, which everybody can see, for example PKI, CAST, PGP, all them are public.

I love the command line. Sure, the WIMP paradigm brought the personal computer out of obscurity and into the hands of less technical people.