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Read this korrent: Building a secure obfuscation protocol is extremely difficult.
Building a secure obfuscation protocol is extremely difficult.
Last stated 2 months ago
29 Jun 2026
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Vitalik Buterin — holds since 2026-06-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A sufficiently large random reversible circuit is plausibly a secure cryptographic permutation, while a large random irreversible circuit collapses to only a few possible outputs. — tap to centre the map on it
A sufficiently large random reversible circuit is plausibly a secure cryptographic permutation, while a large random irreversible circuit collapses to only a few possible outputs.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
21 Aug 2026
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Vitalik Buterin — holds since 2026-08-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: As of 2026, local mixing has not yet sufficiently eliminated correlations between original circuit values and their obfuscated counterparts. — tap to centre the map on it
As of 2026, local mixing has not yet sufficiently eliminated correlations between original circuit values and their obfuscated counterparts.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
21 Aug 2026
VB
Vitalik Buterin — holds since 2026-08-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Current provably-secure indistinguishability-obfuscation schemes have galactically impractical runtimes. — tap to centre the map on it
Current provably-secure indistinguishability-obfuscation schemes have galactically impractical runtimes.
Last stated 2 months ago
29 Jun 2026
VB
Vitalik Buterin — holds since 2026-06-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Handling a change of keys is not a backdoor; it is how public-key cryptography works, and interception stays detectable by the sender. — tap to centre the map on it
Handling a change of keys is not a backdoor; it is how public-key cryptography works, and interception stays detectable by the sender.
Last stated 10 years ago
13 Jan 2017
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Moxie Marlinspike — holds since 2017-01-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: If the Riemann hypothesis turned out to be false, prime-based cryptography would be abandoned very quickly, because one unknown pattern implies more. — tap to centre the map on it
If the Riemann hypothesis turned out to be false, prime-based cryptography would be abandoned very quickly, because one unknown pattern implies more.
Last stated 6 months ago
20 Mar 2026
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Terence Tao — holds since 2026-03-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Local mixing, a new cryptographic obfuscation approach, is a risky bet resembling past failed attempts at white-box cryptography. — tap to centre the map on it
Local mixing, a new cryptographic obfuscation approach, is a risky bet resembling past failed attempts at white-box cryptography.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
21 Aug 2026
VB
Vitalik Buterin — holds since 2026-08-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Obfuscation is the most powerful primitive yet conceived in cryptography. — tap to centre the map on it
Obfuscation is the most powerful primitive yet conceived in cryptography.
Last stated 2 months ago
29 Jun 2026
VB
Vitalik Buterin — holds since 2026-06-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Very deep principles lie hidden inside theories we already have: public key cryptography was already implicit in the 1930s theory of computation. — tap to centre the map on it
Very deep principles lie hidden inside theories we already have: public key cryptography was already implicit in the 1930s theory of computation.
Last stated 5 months ago
7 Apr 2026
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Michael Nielsen — holds since 2026-04-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A company's terms of service cannot enlarge or shrink your constitutional privacy rights in either direction. — tap to centre the map on it
A company's terms of service cannot enlarge or shrink your constitutional privacy rights in either direction.
Last stated 9 months ago
16 Dec 2025
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Orin Kerr — holds since 2025-12-16 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A home assistant is only as good as its context, and context comes from sensors placed around the house rather than from a better model. — tap to centre the map on it
A home assistant is only as good as its context, and context comes from sensors placed around the house rather than from a better model.
Last stated 3 months ago
7 Jun 2026
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Tony Fadell — holds since 2026-06-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A spacecraft built to service satellites is also a weapon, because the same robotic arm that refuels one can disable one. — tap to centre the map on it
A spacecraft built to service satellites is also a weapon, because the same robotic arm that refuels one can disable one.
Last stated 2 years ago
25 Mar 2024
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Brian G. Chow — holds since 2024-03-25 — tap for who they are
same subject or similar wording a cloud: claims about one subject, named for it bar: when it was last stated, on a scale from 2015 to today — full is today a face: someone on record holding the claim — tap it for who they are