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This is some strange notion of zero-knowledge. If Bob publishes his link, and I want to know who his crush is, I can simply try all our classmates' names and quickly find out that it's Alice. Those games only make at least a bit of sense when everybody enters their crush and only when matching both get notified. Also brute-forceable, but at least it's quadratic (if you suspect nothing about crushes, which is unrealis…
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)
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The SENPAI protocol! http://sigtbd.csail.mit.edu/pubs/2016/paper10.pdf
I'm really impressed with how readable and how funny that is, but I'm sure I'm missing at least one of the jokes contained within. In particular, they suggest an extension to their protocol called "SENPAI-MTT (More Than Two)", which I'm sure must be a cleverly chosen backronym, but I can't work out why (or if) it is funny. My initial thought was that it could be a reference to the Japanese verb meaning "to look"[0],…
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If it tells you how many letters are right, and how many are in the right place, it could become Datle.
Challenge: build something worthy of being called 204Date (2048 clone).
Repeat that long process until there is just one couple left, whose first-born you then propose to. Having lived long and healthily enough to complete this game, you must have some very desirable genes and/or wealth, and you'll be good friends with basically all this person's ancestors, so there's a strong chance they'll say yes, despite the age difference.
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This explained zero knowledge so much easier than that parable about the caves, thank you.
But it isn't zero-knowledge. If it was zero-knowledge, you would be able to know what you had the same gift/crush, but it would be impossible to prove to someone else. Mere hashing doesn't do that. For the crush example (This site), your crush could show everyone the link and their name. For that matter, someone could enter the names of everyone you knew in turn, until you were outed.
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Instead of getting your SO's name tattooed on your body that you'll regret in a few years, you'll instead get your names added to the blockchain...that you'll regret in a few years.
Dont give them any ideas. The RomanceSmartChain is only a few months out at this rate.
Sep 23, 2014
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/press-releases/couple-get-marrie...
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I'm really impressed with how readable and how funny that is, but I'm sure I'm missing at least one of the jokes contained within. In particular, they suggest an extension to their protocol called "SENPAI-MTT (More Than Two)", which I'm sure must be a cleverly chosen backronym, but I can't work out why (or if) it is funny. My initial thought was that it could be a reference to the Japanese verb meaning "to look"[0],…
I know absolutely nothing about this but would it not be referring to polygamous relationships?
It's in the section titled "Ternary Responses", and covers the use case of a participant wanting to express "Maybe" as an opinion.
Oh, actually, I might have worked it out. It could be that "More Than Two" is designed to be somehow the reverse of "Less Than Three", which represents a heart.
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)
Doesn't work, because you can reasonably brute-force possible gifts.