Tag: Cryptography

matching keys made of circuits & led lights, encryption & crypto

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News
Date
April 13, 2022

Categorized
Computer Security, Mathematics

Tagged
Computer hacking, Cryptography, Erica Klarreich, Kolmogorov complexity}

New Clue in the Problem That Haunts All Cryptography?

_{A string that has no description shorter than itself is a good bet for cryptography. If the hacker doesn’t know it, he can’t use shortcuts to guess it.} _{News
April 13, 2022

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Computer Security, Mathematics}

A central problem in all computer security (branch of cryptography) is the one-way problem. Cryptography should function as a one-way street: You can go north but you can’t go south. So if a hacker doesn’t have the code to go north, he can’t go anywhere. Which is where the computer security expert would like to leave the hacker… Is there such a thing as a one-way function in mathematics? Mathematician Erica Klarreich says, probably yes, and explains what it looks like: To get a feel for how one-way functions work, imagine someone asked you to multiply two large prime numbers, say 6,547 and 7,079. Arriving at the answer of 46,346,213 might take some work, but it is eminently doable. However, Read More ›

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News
Date
August 3, 2021

Categorized
Business and Finance

Tagged
Bernard Fickser, Collectibles, cryptocurrency, Cryptography, Digital collectibles, Featured, Jack Dorsey's tweet, Non-fungible token (NFT)}

Cryptography: Are Non-Fungible Tokens a Scam? Or Can They Work?

_{By Warren Buffett’s logic, if cryptocurrencies are rat poison squared, non-fungible tokens are rat poison to an infinite power. But is that all there is to be said about them?} _{News
August 3, 2021

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Business and Finance}

Introduction: At Expensivity, Bernard Fickser explains that a non-fungible token (NFT) is a unique token in cryptography that represents, say, real estate or art rather than money. Because the tokens have unique identities (non-fungible), they can be bought or sold while reducing the risk of fraud. So how do they work?: The series is called How Non-Fungible Tokens Work: NFTs Explained, Debunked, and Legitimized (July 30, 2021). In Part 1, he looks at the problems with making NFTs work. 1 Non-Fungible Tokens: Rat Poison Raised to an Infinite Power? “Poised to radically reconfigure the crypto-asset market, non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are revolutionizing our conception of money and value, creating not just entirely new markets but even new economies that are Read More ›

Hands hold a paper sheet with the message your vote matters over a crowded street background. People legal and democratic rights, every voice counts. Election campaign and electoral agitation concept

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News
Date
December 21, 2020

Categorized
Data Privacy

Tagged
___longform, Alan Turing, Alice and Bob, Alonzo Church, Ballots, Cryptography, Cryptosecure Election Protocol (CEP), Electoral fraud prevention, Featured, Proof of identity, Turing Principle, Voting machines}

How Crypto Can Help Secure Fair Elections

_{Here’s what we need for a cryptosecure election protocol (CEP)} _{News
December 21, 2020

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Data Privacy}

(Recently, we’ve been asking readers to think about Alice and Bob, the famous pair in physics used to demonstrate propositions in a variety of contexts but we began to focus on what happens if Alice and Bob are competing for a political office. Bernard Fickser, whose argument for reform we have been following, offers a look at how a crypto secure election system might work.) We now come to the most interesting part of this article, namely, a cryptographically based protocol for securing elections. If such a protocol can be made to fly, it will do much to secure free and fair elections as well as to boost voter confidence that votes are being accurately counted and not mixed with Read More ›

A fish with wide open mouth and big eyes, Surprised, shocked or amazed face front view

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Eric Holloway
Date
August 17, 2020

Categorized
Information Theory

Tagged
Authentication, Communication, Cryptography, Cypher, Design Inference (book), Explanatory Filter, Featured, Texas Sharpshooter Fallacies, William Dembski}

Is Dembski’s Explanatory Filter the Most Widely Used Theory Ever?

_{It turns out that legions of critics of the Filter use it all the time, without noticing} _{Eric Holloway
August 17, 2020

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Information Theory}

William Dembski created quite a stir in the world of information theory with his book The Design Inference. For the first time, he outlined a rigorous method for identifying design, which he called the explanatory filter. Since then many critics have claimed that Dembski’s proposed filter is without merit due to the lack of application in the couple of decades since its invention. But, are the critics right, or are they wrong—wrong in the way that a fish doesn’t recognize water because water is the very atmosphere of the fish’s existence? Let us first remind ourselves of Dembski’s explanatory filter. His filter proceeds in three main steps. Eliminate events of large probability (necessity) Eliminate events of medium probability (chance) Specify Read More ›

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Robert J. Marks
Date
December 6, 2018

Categorized
Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Albert Einstein, Classical Physics, Coin Flipping, Cryptography, Determinism, Encryption, Featured, free will, Isaac Newton, Physics, Quantum Collapse, Roger Penrose, Specified Complexity}

Quantum Randomness Gives Nature Free Will

_{Whether or not quantum randomness explains how our brains work, it may help us create unbreakable encryption codes} _{Robert J. Marks
December 6, 2018

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Philosophy of Mind}

When I was boy, my father explained free will and predestination to me: I dig a fence post hole. · Did I create the hole because of my own free will? · Or was the hole already there and I simply removed the dirt? If true, the hole was predestined. The question cannot be answered by examining the evidence. In philosophy terms, it is “empirically unanswerable.” That is the sort of stuff that philosophers debate. Religious people might point to scripture to support one conclusion over the other.1 In physics, however, quantum randomness offers a definitive answer to the question of predestination vs. free will—for subatomic particles. In the world of classical physics (Isaac Newton’s physics), it can be argued Read More ›