Curtis G. Pew wrote:
>When I gave a presentation about encryption to our programmers a few years 
>back, one thing I said was "Encryption never solves your problem. Instead, it 
>transforms your problem into a different problem, which may be easier to 
>solve." (I was thinking specifically about key management, but even that's not 
>the whole story.) The important point here is that just throwing encryption at 
>a security issue doesn't resolve it. Encryption is a valuable tool that 
>properly used can be a significant part of a security solution, but by itself 
>doesn't magically solve anything.

That's great-sums it up very nicely!

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