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[linux-security] Re: "Flavors of Security Through Obscurity"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Biggs)
Tue Jun 2 08:41:37 1998
To: linux-security@redhat.com
From: Christopher Biggs <chris@stallion.oz.au>
Date: 02 Jun 1998 06:51:49 +1000
In-Reply-To: "Brandon K. Matthews"'s message of Sat, 30 May 1998 11:44:39 -0500
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com
"Brandon K. Matthews" <bmatt@devils.eng.fsu.edu> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:
> This was posted not too long ago on sci.crypt... Enjoy... I think the most
> relevant information is near the top, but it's all quite good... :-)
>
^^^^^^^^^^^
I think you misspelt "utter rubbish".
By the poster's own theory of "equivalence of algorithm and key", then
varying the algorithm is no different from increasing the key length.
I challenge the poster to memorize a 2048-bit RSA key.
If the algorithm is secret, then how is anybody else to understand
your messages? I have a machine I use to acheive the same results: a
shredder.
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