[cryptome] Re: [cryptography] Shamir Reveals Sisyphus Algorithm

  • From: coderman <coderman@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: John Young <jya@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 10:41:11 -0700

On 4/22/15, John Young <jya@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Adi Shamir at RSA Conference:

Fully secure systems don't exist now and won't exist in the future.

Cryptography won't be broken, it will be bypassed.

Futility of trying to eliminate every single vulnerability in a given
piece of software.

https://threatpost.com/fully-secure-systems-dont-exist/112380#sthash.sKPz03sv.dpuf


not quite true, this assertion:
'“If you’re trying to find the last bug or stop the most
sophisticated, NSA-type attacker, you have to spend totally
unreasonable money,” he said.'

you may also spend totally unreasonable amounts of skilled time...

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