full-disclosure - "security by obscurity"

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Message-ID: <3DF4CB7F.3050002@guninski.com>
From: guninski at guninski.com (Georgi Guninski)
Subject: "security by obscurity"

Berend-Jan Wever wrote:

> Hmmmm...
> ... isn't hiding your root password security through obscurity ?
> ... isn't hiding your private PGP key security through obscurity ?
> ... isn't 90% of security based on these kinds of obscurity ?

IMHO this is not security by obscurity.
An example for security by obscurity is the following:
I give you an application which does encryption, but I don't tell you how it 
works at all.
The marketing says it is tru$tworthy and unbreakable.