[113445] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fiber cut in SF area
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Sun Apr 12 02:41:07 2009
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:38:43 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200904120403.n3C435PH058833@aurora.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Joe Greco wrote:
> Public key crypto is, pretty much by definition, reliant on the
> obscurity of private keys in order to make it work.
In security terms, public key crypto is not "security by obscurity", as
the obscurity part is related to how the method works, and the key is
secret. So "openssh" is definitely not "security by obscurity", as anyone
with programming knowledge can find out exactly how everything works, and
the only thing that is a secret is the private key generated.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
