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Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets

(www.quantamagazine.org)

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” ?

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> 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..

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Typical of Quanta magazine
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How is this not security through obscurity?
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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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