[Spooks] WHY

[✇ KC2TTK]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:18 PM, KD7JYK DM09 <kd7jyk at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I see I'll have to re-read that a few times, but off the top of my head,
> based on that, it seems obscurity is about as close to total security as
> possible, even with the best of decryption techniques over many years.

Yup :-)  At least from a cryptographic standpoint.

In contemporary times, "security" has less to do with keeping a secret
so much as determining a balance between how many resources need to be
invested into brute-forcing a given obscuring method(s), and the
significance of the payload (what the secret message is).

Of course, if you really want to keep something secret, well... he
that hath a secret had better keep secret that he hath a secret to
keep. ;-)

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