Schneier's law
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The term Schneier's Law was coined by Cory Doctorow in his speech about Digital Rights Management for Microsoft Research,[1] which is included in his 2008 book Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future. The law is phrased as:
| “ | Any person can invent a security system so clever that he or she can't imagine a way of breaking it. | ” |
He attributes this to Bruce Schneier, presumably making reference to his book Applied Cryptography, although the principle predates its publication. In The Codebreakers, David Kahn states:
| “ | Few false ideas have more firmly gripped the minds of so many intelligent men than the one that, if they just tried, they could invent a cipher that no one could break. | ” |
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- Bruce Schneier (1994). Applied Cryptography. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-59756-2
- ^ Cory Doctorow (2004-06-17). "Microsoft Research DRM talk". Archived from the original on 2006-12-02. http://web.archive.org/web/20061202192720/http://www.dashes.com/anil/stuff/doctorow-drm-ms.html. Retrieved 2006-12-31.
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