Perfect Passwords: Selection, Protection, Authentication

In contrast, the opposite of this is how a realtor might place a house key

in a lock box attached to your doorknob. Anyone with the box’s combination

can obtain the key to open the door.This allows various realtors to show the

house without having to copy and pass around keys.The combination on the

lock box is an example of reliable security.

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Security through obscurity is weak, but obscurity can be useful as

an additional layer on top of legitimate security methods. In the

lock box example, this would mean keeping the key in a lock box

and then hiding the lock box. Someone would have to locate the

box, but once he or she found it, that person would ...