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asr comments on an ethical puzzle about brain emulation - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: asr 13 December 2013 09:53PM

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Comment author: asr 15 December 2013 02:25:19PM *  1 point [-]

I was thinking of a symmetric cipher, so the same key would be for both encryption and decryption. The significance of "the key is lost" is that it's no longer feasible to distinguish the resulting data from random bits.

Comment author: ESRogs 16 December 2013 07:58:16PM 0 points [-]

Gotcha, thanks.