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  • Subject: Re: setsppfp bug
  • From: "Phil Hall" <hallp@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 16:12:41 -0500


> Let me quote from "Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier:
[--snip--]
> So, according to Bruce, the AS/400 has obscurity, not security.
>
> A fundamental tenet in cryptoanalysis, first enunciated
> by the Dutchman
[--snip--]
>IBM's attempt to be secretive about AS/400 internals, does
>not lead to a secure system.

Absolutely, and a bad attempt at that.

It amazes me that from a company that created the original spec. for DES,
and in doing so highlighted a number of excellent rules/policies for
security as a whole in the research documents surrounding DES, failed so
miserably when it came to SLIC/OS400...


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