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Sun Apr 12 06:38:43 UTC 2009

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Joe Greco wrote:

> Public key crypto is, pretty much by definition, reliant on the 
> obscurity of private keys in order to make it work.

In security terms, public key crypto is not "security by obscurity", as 
the obscurity part is related to how the method works, and the key is 
secret. So "openssh" is definitely not "security by obscurity", as anyone 
with programming knowledge can find out exactly how everything works, and 
the only thing that is a secret is the private key generated.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se