marius adrian popa wrote:

> security by obscurity is obscurity not security , there are
> decompilers , disassemblers so i wouldn't sleep too well

> http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0205.html#1
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity#Arguments_against

I don't disagree - but obscurity still does work a lot better
in closed source than in open source, which was my main point.

I've used disassemblers, they are very much a professional's
tool (it's not like you get nicely commented source code from
them), so for some of the requests we've seen ("stop casual
browsing") such obscurity is likely to be sufficient. They've
just got to learn to stop asking for it to appear in open
source as that rather defeats the purpose ;-).

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Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing