More people do X makes X more done.
why does it fail so horribly for X = protecting a secret? or does it?
(I’m not 3, by the way…)
More people do X makes X more done.
why does it fail so horribly for X = protecting a secret? or does it?
(I’m not 3, by the way…)
More people protecting the secret means more people know the secret and the more people that know the secret the more likely it is that the secret will be exposed
this way of phrasing is reasonable but it feels like those should cancel out. i mean why taking a situation of 1 person protecting a secret and multiplying it by N changes it.
oh i got it now.
if it’s 1000 people protecting 1000 different secrets (each their own) then it does cancel out.
note that it does get worse if the secret-guesser knows something about the statistical distribution of those secrets, and the value of each secret is kind of interchangeable to them. then things like rainbow tables exist.