full-disclosure - New paper on Security and Obscurity

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From: stephane.nasdrovisky at paradigmo.com (stephane nasdrovisky)
Subject: New paper on Security and Obscurity

This not so new info may bring some lights : 
http://www.fact-index.com/a/au/auguste_kerckhoffs.html : "... the 
security of a cryptosystem must depend only on the key, not on the 
secrecy of any other part of the system."

Peter Swire wrote:

>?full disclosure? and computer security:
>
>	http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=531782
>
>	The paper begins by analyzing the
>clich? that ?there is no security through obscurity.?  It observes that the
>traditional military and intelligence clich? is that ?loose lips sink
> ships.?
>  
>