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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: need secure OS to entrust millions to
Date: 13 Mar 1996 02:00:49 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:
] On the contrary, security through obscurity usually refers to security
] resulting merely from not knowing the algorithm; it's the existence of
] an variable key (which *is* from a known search space) that removes a
] system from that category.
What would you call RSA? What would you call DES?
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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