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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Relevant Note(s): Information Security

Footnotes

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