gwern comments on Open thread, Feb. 9 - Feb. 15, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ike 16 February 2015 05:11:27AM *  0 points [-]

Pfft says that this wouldn't work at all for proof due to how TLS works. Is that true? Is there no hope, then?

If correct, it's impossible to prove that any server sent a specific piece of data, because it's encrypted symmetrically, and the only proof you have a zero-knowledge and non-transmissible. (Assuming I'm understanding properly.)

Comment author: gwern 16 February 2015 08:02:10PM 0 points [-]

I dunno. I'm not an expert on TLS/HTTPS - I assumed that it would be implemented the natural way (signed and encrypted) where my proposal would work. But the devil is in the details...