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Re: Show HN: Cryptris, a video game on cryptography

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Post by lducas »

ucarion wrote: post #5
atmosx wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah, that was kind of a blow to me...

This game is quite confusing even if you speak French. Somehow playing a variant of tetris explains public key crypto.

The relations between the game and public key crypto are explained here (if you speak french...) :

http://images.math.cnrs.fr/Cryptris-1-2-Comprendre-une-des.h...

and

http://images.math.cnrs.fr/Cryptris-2-2-Les-dessous.html

Re: Show HN: Cryptris, a video game on cryptography

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Post by schoen »

lducas wrote: post #6
ucarion wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This game is quite confusing even if you speak French. Somehow playing a variant of tetris explains public key crypto.

The relations between the game and public key crypto are explained here (if you speak french...) : http://images.math.cnrs.fr/Cryptris-1-2-Comprendre-une-des.h... and http://images.math.cnrs.fr/Cryptris-2-2-Les-dessous.html

It's quite clever, but I think the pedagogical function is questionable, because I don't think that the geometric interpretation will be particularly clear to players who haven't read these articles.

The idea of the game seems to be to show people that public-key cryptography exists and can work, yet the actual method of creating the public and private keys (and the fact that the public key can be created easily given the private key and not vice versa) won't be especially obvious.

Re: Show HN: Cryptris, a video game on cryptography

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Post by dang »

bgutierrez wrote: post #7

I like it so far. Do you already have plans for translating? I think I can read just enough french to understand what is going on and I'm interested in helping out.

I hope you do! This project sounds cool, and if you and/or others produce an English version, we'll waive the rule on duplicates and welcome a repost.

It seems like this work would best be discussed here once the entire community is able to play the game.

Re: Show HN: Cryptris, a video game on cryptography

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Post by lducas »

schoen wrote: post #8
lducas wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The relations between the game and public key crypto are explained here (if you speak french...) : http://images.math.cnrs.fr/Cryptris-1-2-Comprendre-une-des.h... and http://images.math.cnrs.fr/Cryptris-2-2-Les-dessous.html

It's quite clever, but I think the pedagogical function is questionable, because I don't think that the geometric interpretation will be particularly clear to players who haven't read these articles. The idea of the game seems to be to show people that public-key cryptography exists and can work, yet the actual method of creating the public and private keys (and the fact that the public key can be created easily give…

Indeed it was our idea; with the opportunity for the most curious players to learn more about Crypto, Algorithms and Math. The articles (and the whole "documentation" menu) are for the curious kids (of all ages...)

After 24h hours the game is already a success. I will for sure put a lot of effort in getting the game translated !

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