Friday, March 18, 2005

Safecracking and security

This has been lurking in my aggregator since earlier in the year. Fascinating analysis and yet another example that "security by obscurity" strategies are, at best, a very high-risk strategy.

Safecracking. Matt Blaze has written an excellent paper: "Safecracking for the computer scientist." It has completely pissed off the locksmithing community. There is a reasonable debate to be had about secrecy versus full disclosure, but a lot of these comments are... [Schneier on Security]
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