There are many areas of security where you can genuinely get by with obfuscation, hoping the attacker looks elsewhere, or general security-through-obscurity.
You can't in crypto. When the entire system relies on an axiom being true, you need to make sure it's true. The attacks are only going to get better. The attacks are going to come from the future. The embedded systems will not be replaced in time.
You can't in crypto. When the entire system relies on an axiom being true, you need to make sure it's true. The attacks are only going to get better. The attacks are going to come from the future. The embedded systems will not be replaced in time.