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Military/ Aerospace Embedded Computers :: Obscurity -- A Poor Substitute for Security

By Gernot Heiser, Open Kernel Labs Kerckhoffs' principle, formulated by a 19th century Dutch mathematician, is the accepted basis for strong security.It was originally formulated for crypto algorithms, where it stated that an encryption system must not depend on the security of the algorithms, only the keys.  >>