Re: HAPPY GUY FAWKES DAY!

[Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>]

On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Nicolas J. Hammond wrote:
> 
> Not quite sure the relevance to cryptography.
> I believe that at their "trial", some documents were produced - 
> I doubt they were encrypted.

Well, Mary Queen Of Scots's secret communications relied on concealing 
messages in bottles whilst under arrest. This channel was discovered, and 
all here messges were intercepted and read before being passed on. 

Security thru Obscurity just doesn't work...