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Re: Columbia crypto box
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Sun Feb 9 02:00:49 2003
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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Faust <urfaust@optushome.com.au>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 22:01:47 -0500
In message <adh5ojik.fsf@optushome.com.au>, Faust writes:
>> Apparently some folks skipped class the day Kerchhoffs'
>> Principle was covered.
>
>While this is obvious to the oldtimers, I had to look Kerkhoffs principle
>( and found that it is the old injunction against security by obscurity ).
>
You can find Kerchhoffs' original work at
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fapp2/kerckhoffs , in French and English.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)
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