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> security through obscurity is a bad idea only if that's your only defense, which it was for a lot of old crypto schemes & why the crypto community consensus
by falsedan 7y ago
> security through obscurity is a bad idea
only if that's your only defense, which it was for a lot of old crypto schemes & why the crypto community consensus was to publish algorithms/assume the attacker had the implementation. that mindset isn't universally applicable