Cryptography 'Becoming Less Important,' Adi Shamir Says

Trailrunner7 writes "In the current climate of continuous attacks and intrusions by APT crews, government-sponsored groups and others organizations, cryptography is becoming less and less important, one of the fathers of public-key cryptography said Tuesday. Adi Shamir, who helped design the original RSA algorithm, said that security experts should be preparing for a 'post-cryptography' world. 'I definitely believe that cryptography is becoming less important. In effect, even the most secure computer systems in the most isolated locations have been penetrated over the last couple of years by a series of APTs and other advanced attacks,' Shamir said during the Cryptographers' Panel session at the RSA Conference today. 'We should rethink how we protect ourselves. Traditionally we have thought about two lines of defense. The first was to prevent the insertion of the APT with antivirus and other defenses. The second was to detect the activity of the APT once it's there. But recent history has shown us that the APT can survive both of these defenses and operate for several years.""

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[AK Marc]

In the example, he was already being forced to watch his family being raped and killed. And you think they'd let him have his gun while watching?

If my attitude is defeatist, so is GP's. The nuts (of all kinds, not just gun nuts) always gauge the worst case of the other side and the best case of theirs. Hence my continuation of the worst case he already started laying out.