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Why do we think anything is secure, with Steve Weis

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What does P vs NP have to do with cryptography? Why do people love and laugh about the random oracle model? What's an oracle? What do you mean factoring and discrete log don't have proofs of hardness? How does any of this cryptography stuff work, anyway? We trapped Steve Weis into answering our many questions.

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https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2023/06/29/why-do-we-think-anything-is-secure-with-steve-weis/

Links:
- The Random Oracle Methodology, Revisited: https://eprint.iacr.org/1998/011.pdf
- Factoring integers with CADO-NFS: https://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/AriC/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/JDetrey-tutorial.pdf
- On One-way Functions from NP-Complete Problems: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/513.pdf
- Seny Kamara's lecture notes on provable security: https://cs.brown.edu/~seny/2950-v/2-provablesecurity.pdf
- How To Simulate It – A Tutorial on the Simulation Proof Technique: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/046.pdf
- A Survey of Leakage-Resilient Cryptography: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/302
- A Decade of Lattice Cryptography: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/939.pdf


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