[Info-vax] What to do with my VAX.....

[Dave Froble]

On 11/11/2020 6:56 PM, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
> seasoned_geek <roland at logikalsolutions.com> wrote:

>> ALL
>> ENCRYPTION is security by obscurity. Period.
>
> Thus proving nicely that you know _absolutely_ nothing about encryption.
> You imight want to read up on Kerckhoff's principle for starters.

Well, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss that statement.

Isn't not knowing a solution a form of obscurity?  Otherwise, if one 
knows the key, then there is no security, right?  So not knowing the key 
is sort of "security by obscurity"?

There have been multiple instances in the past of codes being broken and 
harmful affects because of that.  The Japanese code in WWII?

What is a "secret key", other than "unknown data"?  Can such a key be 
guessed?  Unlikely.  But possible.

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