Talk:Kerckhoffs' law
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A nit, but a philiosophically important one. In his law, K noted something, which happens to be true about crypto use and about what its users should assume about the threat environmetn and how they can / should best respond. It is only because this is true that 'the majority of civilian crypto...'. It is not because of his statement of it. One might equally say the same thing about Shanno's Maxim, and be equally skew to the actual situation.
It is this, among many related points, that I'm struggling with at crypt engineering and crypto system. That's why they've been under construction for so long. ww 16:09, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- OK, I've gone with "In accordance with", not "because of". Note that here (and presumably cryptoengineering and cryptosystem), we cannot assert that Kerckhoffs' law is true because of NPOV, even if we think it is. — Matt 16:39, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)