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Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets

34 points by Xcelerate - 5 comments
ksd482 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Is the approach analogous to one way hash? But with mathematical statements?

Given that they can’t be proven, so it’s effectively unpredictable and “un-generatable” ?

zb3 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
> to create a powerful new tool in cryptography.

What is that new powerful tool in cryptography, then?

> He wanted to build zero-knowledge proofs that weren’t interactive. Thirty years earlier, Goldreich and Oren had established that such proofs are impossible.

I'm not sure what "interactive" means here, but I thought ZK-SNARKs were already non-interactive.

It seems the article has nothing to do with anything practical..

newsicanuse [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Typical of Quanta magazine
HoldOnAMinute [3 hidden]5 mins ago
How is this not security through obscurity?
majorchord [3 hidden]5 mins ago
If math is STO then I would argue passwords are also STO.

It's only secure until someone figures it out.