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Lessons from cryptography

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 06, 2002 11:07 PM
This is like saying a cryptographic message is secure because no one knows the algorithm. We all that is not really security, it's luck. It's luck because you're hoping that this "script-kiddy" doesn't know your OS, not because your system is really secure.

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