Some Key Principles
To cryptographically secure your system, there are some principles you should assume. We will study them in this lesson.
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Fields, Kerckhoffs, and Shannon
It always catches my attention when I see similar advice from multiple traditions. It feels like triangulating in on the truth.
The enemy knows the system
Linguist and cryptographer Auguste Kerckhoffs is best known for a pair of essays written in 1883. The key piece of advice from these essays is known these days as Kerckhoffs’s Law, one translation of which is, “A cryptosystem ...