> Our school is living in the future, providing a RSS-feed per child.
That is actually really cool. Are there any privacy concerns though?
That is actually really cool. Are there any privacy concerns though?
What does this have to do with the security of the feed?
"[The system] should not require secrecy, and it should not be a problem if it falls into enemy hands"
Which gives rise to the idea of "security though obscurity" is bad. A system is said to rely on obscurity if the bad guy learning any facts about it (other than the special secret keys) represents a compromise.
Security through obscurity means that if the details of the algorithm are known then your secrets are no longer secret. It relys on keeping the encyption method itself secret.
Compare with most good encryption methods, if you know which algorithm was used to encrypt my hard drive you cant use that information to decrypt it. The algorithm is published and the enemy knows the system but the system is still secure.
given it's for feeds you have to (most likely) manually regenerate them