[Cryptography] When your security is too secure

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Sun Nov 23 20:26:45 EST 2025


It appears that Jon Callas <jon at callas.org> said:
>There's a classic model of security: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Hahahaha, CIA, get it, CIA! As I get older
>and more experienced, the more I think that A is more important than C or I. If you don't need Availability, why not just put
>things into /dev/null for Confidentiality? That's just the digital form of burn after reading.

Wouldn't that be burn before reading?

R's,
John

PS: I heard it as BBRSC, Burn Before Reading and Shoot the Courier


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