[Crypto-chi] Security Through Obscurity

[Dan Massoglia]

Thx both. Another application I think is some of the wi-fi or bluetooth
components being added to cars, I think in some cases for unlocking (?). I
remember reading about that a while ago. I'm interested in this in part to
try to bridge a gap between privacy people and security folks. When some
privacy scholars say "obscurity" they act as if the words stay in a privacy
context (which is supposed to exist in the abstract) without security
comment or consideration. I thought the disconnect might form connections.

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Peter Baumgarten <me at peter-baumgarten.com>
wrote:

> 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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