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So why is this being posted? Kerckhoffs' principle is common knowledge, I thought

by thaweatherman 13y ago

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dsugarman 13y ago
I'm not the OP so I can't speak for him but here is why I think it's cool he posted it now: 1. not everyone is familiar with cryptology, actually the majority of people aren't. 2. IMO it is extremely relevant to the NSA. If there was complete transparency but an elegant system, we can have a secure country.
- goldenkey 13y ago
  It is the right of the people to overthrow a barbaric government. When a government makes it their main concern to prevent dissent, rather than to uphold the constitution of our nation, they have strayed from their rights and duties as governors. There is nothing elegant about the government having the twitch ability to single-out every dissenting "radical" and efficiently terminate their "threat." A sudden change in political wind, and you could see your neighbor disappear because he was a "communist" rebel. Take the current wiretaps and surveillance and channel them back 40 years, and imagine the consequence on the populace. We need to prevent our government from being able to destroy dissent, and that includes invasive invasion of privacy, regardless of its current use and form. It will always be a horrendous potential energy, a spring ready to swallow up the good will of the nation. http://www.sandiego6.com/story/cia-director-brennan-confirmed-as-reporter-michael-hastings-next-target-20130812 http://www.sandiego6.com/story/cia-director-brennan-confirme...
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jacques_chester 13y ago
It was probably linked from something else on the current front page.
aroman 13y ago
There are a lot of things which I would consider "common knowledge", but this is not one of them. Unless of course you mean common knowledge among computer scientists and cryptographers, in which case "common" is rather rare.

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So why is this being posted? Kerckhoffs' principle is common knowledge, I thought

by thaweatherman 13y ago

So why is this being posted? Kerckhoffs' principle is common knowledge, I thought

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dsugarman 13y ago
I'm not the OP so I can't speak for him but here is why I think it's cool he posted it now: 1. not everyone is familiar with cryptology, actually the majority of people aren't. 2. IMO it is extremely relevant to the NSA. If there was complete transparency but an elegant system, we can have a secure country.
- goldenkey 13y ago
  It is the right of the people to overthrow a barbaric government. When a government makes it their main concern to prevent dissent, rather than to uphold the constitution of our nation, they have strayed from their rights and duties as governors. There is nothing elegant about the government having the twitch ability to single-out every dissenting "radical" and efficiently terminate their "threat." A sudden change in political wind, and you could see your neighbor disappear because he was a "communist" rebel. Take the current wiretaps and surveillance and channel them back 40 years, and imagine the consequence on the populace. We need to prevent our government from being able to destroy dissent, and that includes invasive invasion of privacy, regardless of its current use and form. It will always be a horrendous potential energy, a spring ready to swallow up the good will of the nation. http://www.sandiego6.com/story/cia-director-brennan-confirmed-as-reporter-michael-hastings-next-target-20130812 http://www.sandiego6.com/story/cia-director-brennan-confirme...
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jacques_chester 13y ago
It was probably linked from something else on the current front page.
aroman 13y ago
There are a lot of things which I would consider "common knowledge", but this is not one of them. Unless of course you mean common knowledge among computer scientists and cryptographers, in which case "common" is rather rare.