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Love these kind of ideas. Reminded me of once I was trying to allow access to a file with a password. It wasn't any super-secret file or anything, just a CV of a friend hosted on a static file server and she wanted it to "protect" it with a simple password (just didn't want it to be directly available to anyone viewing the homepage. No mission-critical secret of any kind otherwise). Having no real/strict security req…
Yeaaahh, but no. It doesn’t need to be mutual. Guess can be correct but the reveal will probably just out you and cause problems. For confessing your love do it openly, they are no short cuts.
Love these kind of ideas. Reminded me of once I was trying to allow access to a file with a password. It wasn't any super-secret file or anything, just a CV of a friend hosted on a static file server and she wanted it to "protect" it with a simple password (just didn't want it to be directly available to anyone viewing the homepage. No mission-critical secret of any kind otherwise). Having no real/strict security req…
What attacks?
Last year my wife and I suspected we might have gotten each other the same Christmas gift, but didn’t want to spoil the surprise in case we didn’t. So we compared SHA256 hashes... and sure enough they both came out cb17007d (theragun)
I think the idea is that unlike pundits predicting the future, you don't want your particularly clever friend speculating out loud ten minutes into the suspense movie what they think is going on because they either guess the ending, or their guess makes you figure out the ending, and then it's 70 minutes of sitting there reading all of the other foreshadowing and not getting to enjoy any of it.
This has nothing to do with zero-knowledge crypto. Here's some intuition about what zero-knowledge is actually about: https://minaprotocol.com/blog/kimchi-the-latest-update-to-mi...
Depending how you slice it, I either do or don't get to know if the result set is empty. In the latter case, there's a variation of this crush registration system where I don't get to know if Sally has a crush on me, but I do find out if anyone has a crush on me. Of course if the answer is empty set, I don't know if I'm unloved or only loved by people that don't use the app. Which could be pretty heavy.
I remember reading a joke research paper about something like this. It explored all currently known methods of confessing your love, their pros and cons, and had a funny acronym for each. It then proposed a newer, secure algorithm for confessing to your crush if the feeling was mutual, and without leaking information to 3rd parties. I'm trying to find it, but I don't have it saved and I haven't found it on Google yet…
The SENPAI protocol! http://sigtbd.csail.mit.edu/pubs/2016/paper10.pdf
My initial thought was that it could be a reference to the Japanese verb meaning "to look"[0], such as mite ita ("was looking") but represented in vowelless chatspeak[1]. More logical, though, would be the verb meaning "to notice"[2], but the imperative would be kizuite kudasai ("please notice!")[2], and that doesn't match "MTT" at all.
[0] http://www.japaneseverbconjugator.com/VerbDetails.asp?txtVer...
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/bupbs9/about...
[2] http://www.japaneseverbconjugator.com/VerbDetails.asp?txtVer...
> People can enter their names into this unique link to generate the hash of their name. If the generated hash matches, they'll be notified *you* are *their* crush Don't mean to be pedantic, but shouldn't it be "they'll be notified *they* are *your* crush"?
> they'll be notified "you are their crush"
This has nothing to do with zero-knowledge crypto. Here's some intuition about what zero-knowledge is actually about: https://minaprotocol.com/blog/kimchi-the-latest-update-to-mi...
> People can enter their names into this unique link to generate the hash of their name. If the generated hash matches, they'll be notified *you* are *their* crush Don't mean to be pedantic, but shouldn't it be "they'll be notified *they* are *your* crush"?
It's missing quotes. > they'll be notified "you are their crush"