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Re: Papers about "Algorithm hiding" ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Tue Jun 7 19:50:36 2005
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Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 19:00:57 -0400
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: Ian G <iang@systemics.com>
Cc: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>,
Steve Furlong <demonfighter@gmail.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <200506071741.16876.iang@systemics.com>
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 05:41:12PM +0100, Ian G wrote:
|
| The difficulty here is that there is what we might call
| the Choicepoint syndrome and then there is the
| specific facts about the actual Choicepoint heist.
| When I say Choicepoint I mean the former, and the
| great long list of similar failures as posted last week.
Poor form there.
| No it's not rocket science - it's economic science.
| It makes no difference in whether the business is
| small or large - it is simply a question of costs. If
| it costs money to do it then it has to deliver a
| reward.
|
| In the case of the backup tapes there was no reward
| to be enjoyed. So they could never justify encrypting
| them if it were to cost any money. Now, in an unusual
Actually, that's not true. Over 10 years ago, I wrote a small script
that took data very much like this, encrypted it, verified the
output looked like PGP encrypted data, and copied it to a public ftp
site so that a partner could pick it up.
That saved a lot over tape, and reduced manual steps which introduced
errors.
Adam
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