I assumed it was obvious that the volume of a problem is its solution space and the attack surface is the affordances given to it by whatever method of analysis you’re using.
I guess if that isn’t obvious, it probably reads very differently.
Why would you assume a solution space to be 3-dimensional? That said, I don’t see how the possible approaches could be regarded as the surface area even to an n-sphere (even with noninteger n). A triangulation might be more accurate.
Fair enough. You get my point, though. The units don’t work for a literal interpretation. Instead, what seems to be talked about as attack angles is simply which solutions have a decent chance of working. But there’s no reason why high-likelihood avenues should correspond to the edges—in fact, they should tend to represent the center.
I assumed it was obvious that the volume of a problem is its solution space and the attack surface is the affordances given to it by whatever method of analysis you’re using.
I guess if that isn’t obvious, it probably reads very differently.
Ah, so the units of surface area are solutions^(2/3) then.
Why would you assume a solution space to be 3-dimensional? That said, I don’t see how the possible approaches could be regarded as the surface area even to an n-sphere (even with noninteger n). A triangulation might be more accurate.
Fair enough. You get my point, though. The units don’t work for a literal interpretation. Instead, what seems to be talked about as attack angles is simply which solutions have a decent chance of working. But there’s no reason why high-likelihood avenues should correspond to the edges—in fact, they should tend to represent the center.
Yes, I agree with that.