When Cryptographers Turn Lead into Gold.
At its core, a cryptographer's job is to "transmutate" trust: just as alchemists turn lead into gold, cryptographers transmutate trust in one or more assumptions into trust in some other simpler and better-defined assumptions, the ones on which the security of complex monolithic syste...
| Published in: | IEEE Security and privacy : building confidence in a networked world 5, 2 (2007). |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |