[IP] A Model for when Disclosure Helps Security: What Is Different About Computer and Network Security?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Date: September 8, 2004 8:43:51 AM EDT
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Subject: A Model for when Disclosure Helps Security: What Is Different 
About Computer and Network Security?

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=531782


A Model for when Disclosure Helps Security: What Is Different About
Computer and Network Security?

PETER P. SWIRE
Moritz College of Law of the Ohio State University

Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law, Forthcoming

Abstract:

This Article asks the question: When does disclosure actually help
security? The discussion begins with a paradox. Most experts in
computer and network security are familiar with the slogan that there
is no security through obscurity. The Open Source and encryption view
is that revealing the details of a system will actually tend to
improve security, notably due to peer review. In sharp contrast, a
famous World War II slogan says loose lips sink ships. Most experts
in the military and intelligence areas believe that secrecy is a
critical tool for maintaining security. Both cannot be right -
disclosure cannot both help and hurt security.

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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=531782

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