Prof. Alan Woodward is Wrong; The Internet is Fine
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Prof. Alan Woodward is Wrong; The Internet is Fine
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http://cryptogasm.com/2012/03/prof-alan-...-is-wrong/
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The internet isn't broken. I can find metric buttloads of porn every day.
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It's quite worrying that a supposed professor of "cyber security" can be so ill-informed about how the Internet works. I hope he responds.
Nice work.
What exactly is he proposing? A world where applications can implicitly trust anything that comes to them over the wire, because the wire is "secured"? As a client-server application developer, my only response to that is this: Yeah, that's going to fucking happen.
I honestly don't know what he was proposing, other than "we gotta replace IP". I dread an internet where everything is secure; it would slow down everything. A funny picture of someone's cat is just not worth encrypting...
RE: Prof. Alan Woodward is Wrong; The Internet is Fine
March 14, 2012 at 3:22 pm
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2012 at 3:22 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You dread a secure internet for the speed? I'd worry more about who or what was doing the "securing".
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I don't worry about that; it would be a public algorithm like it is now, which has been verified by numerous experts so no "backdoors" are in it.
It would only be a matter of time before hackers discovered how to hack into the new, "secure" internet.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
Not really. The whole reason the ciphers used to protect the Internet are secure is because they are developed by the most mathematically minded people on the planet, and take literally years to perfect. Public key cryptography (RSA, etc) is practically impossible to break due to the mathematics behind it, and the only changes we need to make are to increase the size of the keys every few years as faster hardware is developed that is capable of brute-forcing old shorter keys.
Whenever you hear of a "hack" on the Internet, 99 times out of 100 it is down to human error, not some magical algorithm that can break crypto. Usually there are security vulnerabilities in the application being attacked, like XSS or SQL Injection. A lot of times social engineering is used to get sysadmin to turn off firewalls, or to get people to give away their passwords. In short, this is the most accurate depiction of hacking I've seen in recent times: ![[Image: 20120220.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.smbc-comics.com%2Fcomics%2F20120220.gif)
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