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Schneier's law en · PROPN

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Etymology

Coined by Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author Cory Doctorow in a 2004 speech with reference to a 1998 quote from security expert Bruce Schneier.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:computer security) An informal law holding that anyone can create a security system they cannot personally break.
    • RSA was one of the few fundamental encryption protocols that had not succumbed to Schneier's law in more than thirty years. 2022, Andy Greenberg, Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, unnumbered page:
    • This is especially true if you want to design security systems and not just implement them. Remember Schneier’s Law: “Any person can invent a security system so clever that she or he can’t think of how to break it.” 2014, Bruce Schneir, Carry On: Sound Advice from Schneir on Security, page 34:
    • One unifying truth of computer security is described by Schneier's Law (1998) [267]: Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break. It's not even hard. 2022, Diego Miranda-Saavedra, How to Think About Data Science, page 184:

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