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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> 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

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A basis for all cryptography Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 19:21 -0500
  Re: A basis for all cryptography benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 21:39 -0400
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    Re: A basis for all cryptography Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 08:09 -0500
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