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Lucketone likely knows this and was pointing out that "obscurity" is a misleading word to use when talking about systems which all rely on obscurity, in the pla
by strken 5mo ago
Lucketone likely knows this and was pointing out that "obscurity" is a misleading word to use when talking about systems which all rely on obscurity, in the plain English sense of the word.
- pdpi 5mo agoWe're in a technical forum, discussing a term of art that refers to a very specific bad practice. Lucketone's argument is essentially saying that the bad practice itself isn't actually a bad practice by equivocating the term of art and the plain language definition.
- strken 5mo agoThe problem is that the term of art is confusing to technical people. See TFA. Technical people make logical leaps from "avoid security through obscurity [in the specific context of security systems which depend on obscurity and for which there are better alternatives than obscurity]" to "you should never obfuscate JavaScript" because the word is imprecise.
- fsckboy 5mo ago"security through obscurity" is not a term of art; it is not solely that property which RSA does not rely upon.