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Obfuscation: building the final boss of cryptography (Part I)
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18 September
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Many times the calls were for those people to hit quotas in their schedule for their boss
15 September
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Software should be fun.Their words
The final boss will be getting DOOM running where every pixel is its own terminal. Software should be fun.
10 September
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Right now OpenAI is extremely dependent on CoT monitoring, everyone else depends on it quite a lot as well, and it looks like it may not last much longer, and that Astra already is on the edge of steganographic capabilities and can do substantial obfuscation if and only if it thinks you would think it is up to no good.
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1 September
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sometimes I talk to people in DC and their their natural inclination is to say why don't you punish the model for doing these bad things like why don't you like bring it under heel and like uh like you know show it who's boss and that is a very dangerous way to address these issues right
26 August
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it was actually being damaged by overly prescriptive humans. And any programmer who's had a pointy-haired boss knows exactly what that is like. When the boss walks into the room, doesn't know anything, starts telling you how to program, how to code. What do you do? You sulk. You write shittier code if you're mandated to do things that are against your better judgment. Why would an agent not be the same?
21 August
From one piece Obfuscation (Part III): Local Mixing 2 beliefs · vitalik.eth.limo
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This is a wild and risky bet; it sits on a graveyard of failed attempts at white-box cryptography .
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But, so far, mixing has not proved to be good enough. There ended up being too many correlations between values in \(C\) and values in the obfuscation that remained.
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From one piece Obfuscation: building the final boss of cryptography (Part I) 3 beliefs · vitalik.eth.limo
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Current provably-secure indistinguishability-obfuscation schemes have galactically impractical runtimes.Their words
But within the good news, there is bad news: the run time is literally galactic
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The most powerful primitive that has been conceived in cryptography is obfuscation
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it turns out that making a secure form of obfuscation is really really hard
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7 April
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Ideas like public key cryptography are I mean, they're just incredibly deep um very non-obvious ideas uh which in some sense lay hidden uh already sort of in in the 1930s.
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20 March
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Um and uh I think we would very rapidly abandon any cryptography based on the primes because if there was a one pattern that we didn't know about there's probably more.
7 January
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Transformed: Moving to the Product Operating ModelTheir words
The third book in Cagan’s trilogy, this one focuses on how companies can transform their cultures from project- to product-oriented. This book is probably less useful for the individual contributor, but it offers hope for anyone trapped in a feature team that something better is possible. Buy it for your boss or CEO.
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The Art of Asking Your Boss for a RaiseTheir words
The Art of Asking is a delightful and quick read. Only 80 pages in fact.
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Applied CryptographyTheir words
Applied Cryptography - Bruce Schneier (Wiley, 1996)
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19 February 2023
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For an online creator, the platform is a boss who docks every paycheck and tells you that you’re being punished for breaking rules that your boss refuses to explain, lest you figure out how to violate them without him noticing.
17 January 2023
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CryptopalsTheir words
Cryptopals – a set of exercises to learn cryptography by breaking it. Very fun.
30 January 2021
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Good Boss, Bad BossTheir words
Robert Sutton, Good Boss, Bad Boss
13 January 2017
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The fact that WhatsApp handles key changes is not a “backdoor,” it is how cryptography works.
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