Timeline for A public key cryptographic technique usable without aid of computer
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| Jun 14, 2013 at 6:50 | answer | added | D.W. | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 11, 2013 at 2:54 | comment | added | Magnus | Very interesting, thanks! It looks like this is however an ordinary cipher which would require a pre-arranged shared key? I'd be very interested to know about a public/private key mechanism using a deck of cards. | |
| Jun 11, 2013 at 2:31 | comment | added | Jeffε | See Bruce Schneier's Solitaire. | |
| Jun 10, 2013 at 20:21 | history | edited | Marzio De Biasi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 10, 2013 at 20:17 | answer | added | Aaron Roth | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 10, 2013 at 20:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackCSTheory/status/344182422734258177 | ||
| Jun 10, 2013 at 8:54 | comment | added | András Salamon | However, the Cinderella story about the glass slipper is a kind of analogue of PKC -- the message (the identity of the wearer) is locked until the right private key (in this case, a biometric: the correct foot) is united with the public key (the slipper). But this is a bit of a stretch. | |
| Jun 10, 2013 at 8:46 | comment | added | András Salamon | Given 1. that public-key cryptography was only published outside the intelligence community less than 40 years ago, and 2. that the essential insight of PKC is that in the digital realm a lock-and-key system can be inverted to keep the key while giving away many copies of the lock, it seems unlikely to me that there are historical analogues. | |
| Jun 10, 2013 at 3:51 | answer | added | Yuval Filmus | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 9, 2013 at 23:29 | comment | added | Magnus | No I mean an algorithm like Caesar or Vigenere encryption. | |
| Jun 9, 2013 at 23:05 | comment | added | Mahdi Cheraghchi | Do you mean boxes, padlocks, seals, physical keys, etc? | |
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| Jun 9, 2013 at 22:23 | history | asked | Magnus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |