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Re: [Cryptography] The paranoid approach to crypto-plumbing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Tue Sep 17 11:44:19 2013
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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:37:39 +1200
From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: bascule@gmail.com, frantz@pwpconsult.com
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Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com> writes:
>On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com> wrote:
>> After Rijndael was selected as AES, someone suggested the really paranoid
>> should super encrypt with all 5 finalests in the competition. Five level
>> super encryption is probably overkill, but two or three levels can offer
>> some real advantages.
>
>I wish there was a term for this sort of design in encryption systems beyond
>just "defense in depth". AFAICT there is not such a term.
>
>How about the Failsafe Principle? ;)
How about Stannomillinery?
Peter.
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