What are you working on? March / April 2014

VincentYu

This is the supposedly-bimonthly-but-we-keep-skipping 'What are you working On?' thread. Previous threads are here. So here's the question:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines:

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable.

This is the supposedly-bimonthly-but-we-keep-skipping 'What are you working On?' thread. Previous threads are here. So here's the question:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines:

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable.

What are the use cases of a ring signature? What does Alice hope to accomplish by arranging for only Bob to be able to verify a thing?

It's intended for situations where Alice and Bob wish to communicate digitally with some degree of privacy and authenticity. At the moment, using software like GnuPG (which is a free and open source implementation of OpenPGP), Alice can encrypt her messages to Bob to provide privacy, and she can also digitally sign her messages to provide authenticity (i.e., a cryptographic proof that she wrote the message).

Unfortunately, using such a system, Alice might worry that Bob could show others her messages and signatures, thus proving to others that she wrote and... (read more)

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