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Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets (quantamagazine.org)
zb3 15 minutes 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..

ksd482 2 hours 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” ?

HoldOnAMinute 1 hours ago [-]
How is this not security through obscurity?
majorchord 35 minutes ago [-]
If math is STO then I would argue passwords are also STO.

It's only secure until someone figures it out.

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