[Cryptography] [FORGED] Attackers will always win, and it's getting worse!

[mok-kong shen]

Am 12.07.2017 um 21:37 schrieb Jerry Leichter:

>> The issues with trusting electronic hardware have become so intractable
>> that for some applications it seems that building mechanical cipher
>> hardware should be reevaluated.
>>
>> No, I am not joking.
>>
>> No significant bandwidth, no easily automated integration with anything,
>> not really applicable to any type of data except text, absolutely
>> doesn't do public-key encryption ... and is absolutely the only thing
>> you know isn't deliberately manufactured to be electronically broken on
>> demand.
> Who's going to write the first paper on attacking such a device 
> through power analysis of the sounds it makes as it runs?
One could also use diverse combinations of hand ciphers and/or 
mechanical ciphers.
For sufficiently small message volumes (and hence efficiency is also 
unlikely to be
a bottleneck) they could be extremely secure IMHO.

M. K. Shen

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