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Security by Obscurity

Oct 16, 20221 min read

Security by Obscurity

Security through obscurity (or security by obscurity) is the reliance in security engineering on design or implementation secrecy as the main method of providing security to a system or component.1

Security by obscurity alone is discouraged and not recommended by standards bodies.


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  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20through%20obscurity ↩


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