Meaning of Schneier's law | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An informal law holding that anyone can create a security system they cannot personally break.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Schneier's law.
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Examples

“This is especially true if you want to design security systems and not just implement them. Remember Schneier’s Law: “Any person can invent a security system so clever that she or he can’t think of how to break it.””

“RSA was one of the few fundamental encryption protocols that had not succumbed to Schneier's law in more than thirty years.”

“One unifying truth of computer security is described by Schneier's Law (1998) [267]: Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break. It's not even hard.”

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