Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

schneier's law

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: schneier's law
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

1

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

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An informal law holding that anyone can create a security system they cannot personally break.

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Alternative letter-case form of Schneier's law.

Example Sentences

"This is especially true if you want to design security systems and not just implement them. Remember Schneier’s Law: “Any person can invent a security system so clever that she or he can’t think of how to break it.”"
"RSA was one of the few fundamental encryption protocols that had not succumbed to Schneier's law in more than thirty years."
"One unifying truth of computer security is described by Schneier's Law (1998) [267]: Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break. It's not even hard."

Etymology

Coined by Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author Cory Doctorow in a 2004 speech with reference to a 1998 quote from security expert Bruce Schneier.

Inflected Forms

Schneir's law (canonical)

Questions

What does schneier's law mean?: An informal law holding that anyone can create a security system they cannot personally break.
Where does schneier's law come from?: Coined by Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author Cory Doctorow in a 2004 speech with reference to a 1998 quote from security expert Bruce Schneier.

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