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Well, they're provably secure for some (mind-bogingly massive) search space. Security by obscurity tends to refer to measures which can be broken once, and the
by throwaway91111 10y ago
Well, they're provably secure for some (mind-bogingly massive) search space.
Security by obscurity tends to refer to measures which can be broken once, and thereafter opened trivially. It sounds like the article is about one of these trivial openings.
Everything can be broken; the goal is to move it or arrest them before they can get in, physically or virtually. It just so happens that, virtually, the time required to brute force it can, at times, be on heat-death-of-the-universe scales. Safes tend to rely on men with guns following soon after alarms trigger.
- Rapzid 10y agoObtaining most keys doesn't require mind-bogglingly massive searches.
- throwaway91111 10y agoWell, it might not. Can you clue me in to the specific scenario you're thinking about? Input rate limiting + known key size should provide a concrete search space.
- Rapzid 10y agoPhysically obtaining them through malware, viruses, bugs, backdoors, social engineering, coercion(physical threats, blackmail, application of force), tapping, physical spying, etc.