Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: A basis for all cryptography Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 05:21:47 -0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 42 Sender: Jim Pennino Message-ID: References: Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="db4120ef82bbc153014637d4cd15a795"; logging-data="1286"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/hWzu/n9CsxuVRS5eEKAsn" User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.10 (i86pc)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wAkavavoFWWC+IMrkNrlYsg61rA= Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:529092 Sam Wormley wrote: > A basis for all cryptography Off topic for this group. >> http://phys.org/news/2015-10-basis-cryptography.html#ms A RSS feed is available; no need for a cut and paste. >> Last week, at the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, The IEEE is an engineering organization. >> MIT researchers showed that the problem of indistinguishability >> obfuscation is, in fact, a variation on a different cryptographic >> problem, called efficient functional encryption. And while computer >> scientists don't know how to do efficient functional encryption, >> either, they believe that they're close?much closer than they thought >> they were to indistinguishability obfuscation. >> >> "This thing has really been studied for a longer time than >> obfuscation, and we've had a very nice progression of results >> achieving better and better functional-encryption schemes," says Nir >> Bitansky, a postdoc in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial >> Intelligence Laboratory who wrote the conference paper together with >> Vinod Vaikuntanathan, an associate professor of electrical >> engineering and computer science. "People thought this is a small >> gap. Obfuscation?that's another dimension. It's much more powerful. >> There's a huge gap there. What we did was really narrow this gap. Now >> if you want to do obfuscation and get all of crypto, everything that >> you can imagine, from standard assumptions, all that you have to do >> is solve this very specific problem, making functional encryption >> just a little bit more efficient." >> > Where is your discussion you claim to embrace, spamming shit head? -- Jim Pennino