gwern comments on Open Thread, September 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 07 September 2012 09:10:04PM 0 points [-]

Set up another pair of RNGs; both write down on a piece of paper and show the paper simultaneously, something like that. With third parties, you lose the time-delay aspect which makes things hard in the case of temporally separate pair members trying to authenticate to each other.