Re:Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm
by contravariant on Friday October 28, 2016 @11:57AM
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Cryptographical transformations aren't supposed to be one-way. Not if you know the key anyway. It would be pretty pointless to encrypt something in a way that can't ever be read.
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Re:Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm
by andorov on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:17PM
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It is useful in cases where you want to verify something is the same as a stored (encrypted) value - e.g. passwords.
One-way encryption where the entire process including the equivalent of salt/pepper is publicly available and not reversible might have some interesting applications.