Douglas_Knight comments on The Curve of Capability - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 06 November 2010 01:23:49AM 1 point [-]

I forgot about one-time pads, which certainly are deployed, but which I don't think of as crypto in the sense of "turning small shared secrets into large shared secrets." My point was that breaks not just public-key cryptography, but also symmetric cryptography, which tends to be formalizable as equivalent to one-way functions.