timtyler comments on Cryptographic Boxes for Unfriendly AI - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 19 December 2010 08:22:25PM 5 points [-]

Having said that, most cryptography isn't like that. There's no proof that AES is secure, just that it creates a lot of muddle that nobody yet knows how to untangle. There's no proof for the common public key schemes, either. They depend on the difficulty of things like factoring large numbers - and we don't have a proof that that is as difficult as it currently seems.