[cryptography] Shamir Reveals Sisyphus Algorithm

[coderman]

On 4/22/15, John Young <jya at pipeline.com> wrote:
> Adi Shamir at RSA Conference:
>
> Fully secure systems don't exist now and won't exist in the future.
>
> Cryptography won't be broken, it will be bypassed.
>
> Futility of trying to eliminate every single vulnerability in a given
> piece of software.
>
> https://threatpost.com/fully-secure-systems-dont-exist/112380#sthash.sKPz03sv.dpuf


not quite true, this assertion:
'“If you’re trying to find the last bug or stop the most
sophisticated, NSA-type attacker, you have to spend totally
unreasonable money,” he said.'

you may also spend totally unreasonable amounts of skilled time...