[Cryptography] Secure erasure
alex at alten.org
alex at alten.org
Tue Sep 13 15:47:22 EDT 2016
Quoting Jerry Leichter <leichter at lrw.com>:
>
> So the alternative is to look elsewhere: Security is a *system*
> property, just like reliability; so as we build reliable systems
> from unreliable components, we need to build secure systems out of
> insecure components. Though as far as we can tell, there needs to
> be more of a secure core to bootstrap with than a reliable core.
Now that is a fabulous insight! It really crystallizes my thought processes
over the past few years. I was (too slowly) coming around to the fact that
we have to build secure systems with what we have, not what we should have.
- Alex
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