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Security through obscurity

Known as: Security by obscurity, Security through obfuscation, Security through obsurity 
In security engineering, security through obscurity (or security by obscurity) is the reliance on the secrecy of the design or implementation as the… 
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2014
2014
Researchers probe security through obscurity
Obfuscation protects code by making it so impenetrable that access to it won't help a hacker understand how it works. 
Review
2009
Review
2009
The YOHKOH survey of partially occulted flares in hard X-rays
Context. Modern solar X-ray imagers do not completely resolve the problem of deriving detailed diagnostics of faint hard X-ray… 
2008
2008
Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture
Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of an… 
2007
2007
Implications of Action Theories to Lean Construction Applications
Two models of Action Theory offer fundamentally different views of the merits and appropriate use of plans. While the… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Network applications of cascaded passive code translation for WDM-compatible spectrally phase-encoded optical CDMA
Recently, there has been a renewed interest in optical code-division multiple access (OCDMA) due to its potential for offering… 
2001
2001
The Dear Self
Harry Frankfurt 1. At the beginning of the Second Section of his treatise entitled Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals… 
2000
2000
Conquest of the four quarters: Traditional accounts of the life of Śaṅkara
Some seven hundred years after Sankara wrote the learned commentaries that established his reputation as one of the foremost… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Byzantium's Role in the Formation of Early Medieval Civilization: Approaches and Problems
Until recently, Europe from the collapse of Roman power in the fifth century to the Carolingian achievement in the ninth—the… 
1985
1985
A Reconsideration of Ovid's Fasti
We have come a long way from Michael Verinus's fifteenth-century estimate of Ovid's Fasti as "illius diuini uatis liber… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Ethological categories of behaviour and some consequences of their conflation
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