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[Cryptography] Squaring Zooko's triangle
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Tue Sep 10 10:29:20 2013
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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:38:55 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
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On 2013-09-10 3:12 AM, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
> I like to look at it the other way round, retrieving the correct name
> for a key.
>
> You don't give someone your name, you give them an 80-bit key
> fingerprint. It looks something like m-NN4H-JS7Y-OTRH-GIRN. The m- is
> common to all, it just says this is one of that sort of hash.
1. And they run away screaming.
2. It only takes 2^50 trials to come up with a valid fingerprint that
agrees with your fingerprint except at four non chosen places.
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