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From: dunham@gdl.msu.edu (Steve Dunham)
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Subject: Re: need secure OS to entrust millions to
Date: 12 Mar 1996 15:57:49 -0500
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In article <Do6395.837.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:

> In article <4hsv73$d3h@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:
> >So you are arguing that the product of two prime numbers
> >renders the prime numbers themselves "secret".
> >
> >I claim that since the search space is known, they are "obscure".

> So do you consider anything except a one-time pad to not be
> security through obscurity?  This would clearly not be the
> usual meaning of the term.

What do you mean, a one-time pad is in a known search space...(So, by
his definition, it is security through obscurity.