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] The law is phrased as:
| “ | Any person can invent a security system so clever that she or he can't think of how to break it. | ” |
He attributes this to Bruce Schneier, presumably making reference to his book Applied Cryptography, althought 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 Shneier (1994), Applied Cryptography, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-59756-2
- ^ Cory Doctorow (2004-06-17). Microsoft Research DRM talk. Retrieved on 2006-12-31.
