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10/11/05 14:26
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#102224 - security through obscurity
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Erik Malund said:
Nevertheless, if the OP is not intent on stealing, whomever else may have such intent now has the recipe.

From the OP question I understood he is not sure whether somebody else ("one") can read out his code from the ADuC or is it protected well enough. I think it is fair to bring up possible security flaws. While we agreed on another thread that absolute security does not exist, there is no point investing in a product that can be copied too easily.

And, there is nothing gained by security through obscurity - if there IS an obvious security hole which is trivial=cheap to exploit, from almost every aspect it is better to bring it to public.

An another view: what I wrote is so evident that there is no need to disguise it.

Still I have not tried so I cannot say if it would work or not and how would the security bits interact with something like this.

Jan Waclawek


List of 11 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
read out from ADUC842            01/01/70 00:00      
   Why?            01/01/70 00:00      
      why not? you can verify the downloading            01/01/70 00:00      
         Aha!            01/01/70 00:00      
   write a "bootloader stub"?            01/01/70 00:00      
      Do you really want to support som            01/01/70 00:00      
   Don't take the OP too seriously!            01/01/70 00:00      
      When stealing may be the issue, I choose            01/01/70 00:00      
         security through obscurity            01/01/70 00:00      
            such will be immenely helped by your pos            01/01/70 00:00      
               the bungling amateurs...            01/01/70 00:00      

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