[Cryptography] What to put in a new cryptography course

Ron Garret ron at flownet.com
Wed Jul 6 22:47:47 EDT 2016


On Jul 6, 2016, at 9:47 AM, Stephan Neuhaus <stephan.neuhaus at zhaw.ch> wrote:

> On 2016-06-23 06:33, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>> 
>> Some of the points I am planning to make are: [...]
>> 
>> * Complexity is the enemy of security.
> 
> Depending on what you mean by that, the evidence for this is pretty thin.

The evidence may be thin, but the argument seems compelling to me: the more complex a system is, the more possible places there are for vulnerabilities to hide.

rg



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