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Subject: Re: Protecting commercial ruby code with public/private key encryption
From: Steven Jenkins <steven.jenkins@ e o >
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 02:32:20 +0900
References: 152772 152778 152802 152827
In-reply-to: 152827

Lothar Scholz wrote:
> The first rule of security is not to talk about security.

Precisely the opposite:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27_principle

Many security experts assert that transparency of mechanism enhances 
security.

Steve