Kerckhoffs's principle
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Kerckhoffs's principle
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#2Obscurity is underrated.
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#3So why is this being posted? Kerckhoffs' principle is common knowledge, I thought
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#4So why is this being posted? Kerckhoffs' principle is common knowledge, I thought
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#5So why is this being posted? Kerckhoffs' principle is common knowledge, I thought
I'm not the OP so I can't speak for him but here is why I think it's cool he posted it now:
1. not everyone is familiar with cryptology, actually the majority of people aren't.
2. IMO it is extremely relevant to the NSA. If there was complete transparency but an elegant system, we can have a secure country.
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#7So why is this being posted? Kerckhoffs' principle is common knowledge, I thought
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#8It's annoying that there's a similar sounding but totally unrelated Kirchhoff's circuit laws from ee; the really crazy thing would be using secure multiparty computation (circuit evaluation...) to show some kind of artificial relationship between the two laws (in that one special case), just to troll people more.
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#9So why is this being posted? Kerckhoffs' principle is common knowledge, I thought
It was probably linked from something else on the current front page.
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#10So why is this being posted? Kerckhoffs' principle is common knowledge, I thought
There are a lot of things which I would consider "common knowledge", but this is not one of them.
Unless of course you mean common knowledge among computer scientists and cryptographers, in which case "common" is rather rare.