Re: [ekmi] Inside the Data Encryption Revolution

[Allen <netsecurity@sound-by-design.com>]

Anil Saldhana wrote:
> http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=12000BUSR3G0
> 
> "Just encrypting data is not the hard part," says Paul Kocher, president 
> and chief scientist at Cryptography Research, a San Francisco-based firm 
> that designs and analyzes security systems. "How do you decide how to 
> regulate who should have access to keys? The strength of an encryption 
> system is only as strong as the key."

"And who controls the keys," he should have said.

Allen Schaaf - CISSP, C|EH, C|HFI, CEI
Information Security Analyst - Business Process Analyst
Training & Instructional Designer - Sr. Documentation Developer
Certified Network Security Analyst and Intrusion Forensics 
Investigator - Certified EC-Council Instructor

Security is lot like democracy - everyone's for it but
few understand that you have to work at it constantly.