On 7/03/2015 15:23 pm, John Young wrote:
No 1 vulnerability of crypto is the user
2nd passphrases
3rd overconfidence
4th trust in the producer
5th believing backdoors are No. 1
I would have said that the #0 vulnerability is failing to deliver
anything that the user sees. Because of
On Mar 7, 2015 9:11 PM, coderman coder...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/7/15, Dave Horsfall d...@horsfall.org wrote:
On Sat, 7 Mar 2015, Kevin wrote:
No 1 vulnerability of crypto is the user
2nd passphrases
3rd overconfidence
4th trust in the producer
5th believing backdoors are No. 1
On 3/7/2015 12:01 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Sat, 7 Mar 2015, Kevin wrote:
No 1 vulnerability of crypto is the user
2nd passphrases
3rd overconfidence
4th trust in the producer
5th believing backdoors are No. 1
I don't agree that the user should be first on that list unless you are
talking
On Sat, 7 Mar 2015, Kevin wrote:
No 1 vulnerability of crypto is the user
2nd passphrases
3rd overconfidence
4th trust in the producer
5th believing backdoors are No. 1
I don't agree that the user should be first on that list unless you are
talking about poor implementation.
How
I seem to recall that Enigma was broken largely due to sloppy user practices
e.g. weak message key, re-use of keys, repeating same message with a weaker
scheme, etc. Used properly, Enigma would've been unbreakable at the time.
Yes, sloppy user practices helped cryptanalysis on all sides,
On 3/7/2015 10:23 AM, John Young wrote:
No 1 vulnerability of crypto is the user
2nd passphrases
3rd overconfidence
4th trust in the producer
5th believing backdoors are No. 1
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No 1 vulnerability of crypto is the user
2nd passphrases
3rd overconfidence
4th trust in the producer
5th believing backdoors are No. 1
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On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 10:23:40AM -0500, John Young wrote:
No 1 vulnerability of crypto is the user
absolutely: pls enjoy this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
which i also packed into an ebook for your convenience:
On 3/7/15, Dave Horsfall d...@horsfall.org wrote:
On Sat, 7 Mar 2015, Kevin wrote:
No 1 vulnerability of crypto is the user
2nd passphrases
3rd overconfidence
4th trust in the producer
5th believing backdoors are No. 1
I don't agree that the user should be first on that list unless
