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7 Sep 2024 07:23:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fun with cryptography  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 3 Jul 2008 17:06:48
Message: <486d3f68$1@news.povray.org>
andrel wrote:

> What these examples have in common is that they were badly designed and 
> they relied on people not knowing the details as an important security 
> measure. The latter is of course an absolute sin in cryptography, but 
> apparently not (yet) when designing voting equipment or identification 
> cards.

Security through obscurity = hmm, it doesn't work. ;-)

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