Live data from Hacker News

Kerckhoffs's principle

en.wikipedia.org

21–22 of 22 posts

Re: Kerckhoffs's principle

#21
post #12
post #8

It'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.

Not only that, there's also Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s_law_of_thermal_r...

Boy that Kirchhoff guy's been a productive fellow.

Re: Kerckhoffs's principle

#22
post #13

But obscurity isn't the enemy of secure crytpo; it's just not the solution to it. Assuming the enemy "already knows the system" is fine, but that doesn't mean obscurity itself somehow reduces security... I know that's not what the principal posits, but that's an attitude I frequently encounter, and I find it profoundly annoying, for some reason.

Obscurity is bad because it makes you _think_ it adds security.
Post reply on HN