On 4 January 2011 12:31, Tyler J. Wagner <ty...@tolaris.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 10:38 +0000, Paul Sladen wrote: >> On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Rowan Berkeley wrote: >> > it should be possible to see the keyhole at least. >> >> You can see the keyhole---but it unremarkable because it looks exactly >> the same as any other keyhole. >> >> What you can't see is any of the tumblers *in* the keyhole, or through >> the keyhole to what is behind it, as that would be a security failure. > > It's a cute metaphor, but inappropriate. Encryption doesn't lock a room, > it changes the entire contents of the room into other, random atoms. > There's no keyhole, no tumblers, nothing to see at all except > nearly-random noise.
If there is no keyhole what do you do with the key, just wave it about and hope for the best? :) Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
