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[UPDATE] May 25 - Sentinel - New Article - Next-Gen Keys

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Seej wrote:

yanka wrote:

The more common such a device is, the easier it is to replicate it, reprogram it, infect it, steal it, and do other generally bad things to gain access. It just seems ... the Academy would want to have their own, more custom, and, possibly, a lot more "hardcore" ID check system.

Relying on a system being secret to keep something secure is known as security through obscurity and is generally frowned upon in security circles. So while I agree that the Academy would probably want a custom-built system I would have expected that it would be based on principles that have been widely attacked and found to be secure.

I agree Seej, that pretty standard stuff, but what i think yanka ment (though i could be wrong) was that using the Keys for the Academy security system is like NASA, NSA, CIA, FBI, MI5 using the same password hashing algorithm that windows does (LM/NTLM).

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