Timeline for What is the actual difference between security through obscurity and true encryption?
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| Aug 14, 2012 at 15:29 | comment | added | Tobias Kienzler | @mikeazo I was so hoping there was an xkcd for this :-D | |
| Aug 14, 2012 at 14:30 | comment | added | mikeazo | @TobiasKienzler Just had to post this, xkcd.com/257 | |
| Aug 14, 2012 at 12:44 | comment | added | Tobias Kienzler | Re "Everything should be made public", shouldn't that rather read "Everything becoming public should not compromise the actual encryption"? With that I mean for example a primitive rot-13-ing of an RSA encrypted message should not be considered safer than RSA alone, but it would at least keep script kiddies with a brute force cracker out for a while since they would have to find and use their brains first. And reducing the amount of potential attackers is not so bad, as is in some scenarios increasing the shortest possible attack duration | |
| Aug 14, 2012 at 11:28 | history | answered | sashank | CC BY-SA 3.0 |