Trusted Audit

The Answer To “Who Watches the Watchers?” (Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?)

Kerckhoffs’s principle (Auguste Kerckhoffs, 19th century, aka Kerckhoffs’s desideratum, assumption, axiom, doctrine or law) states that a cryptosystem should be secure, even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge. Claude Shannon maximized it as “the enemy knows the system”, or “one ought…