[Crypto-chi] Security Through Obscurity

[Peter Baumgarten]

A good example I can think of is wifi. Instead of using something like
WPA2 to secure an access point one can instead to just not broadcast the
SSID. The wifi network will not show up on a list of networks to connect
to but one can just manually enter in the SSID and then they can
connect. I do not if that helps you Dan, but it is the example I think
of when I hear security through/by obscurity and that it is bad.

On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 22:18 -0600, brian wrote:
> I really don't know any good examples, though, I was able to find this
> techdirt article from last year about healthcare.gov.
> 
> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140820/15163928269/white-house-going-with-security-obscurity-as-excuse-refusing-to-release-healthcaregov-security-details.shtml
> 
> Hope that helps you start the search.
> 
> -Brian
> 
> On 02/15/2015 03:58 PM, Dan Massoglia wrote:
> 
> > Hey CP Ppl, 
> > 
> > 
> > Does anyone have good information--preferably academic for what I'm
> > doing right now but security blogs or something cool too--about
> > Security through obscurity. We touched on it briefly at CryptoParty.
> > H8 sending out this ask without more but I'm at a loss for starting
> > on the security stuff sometimes. XO thanks
> > 
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > 
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