Notices by Matthew Green (matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange), page 4

I downloaded an LLM onto my iPhone and it’s *amazing*.

I tried Alan Turing and… well, you have to read the whole thing.

A lie can go halfway round the world while the truth has a paywall.

Per @racheltobac: 75% of Twitter 2FA users are using SMS-based authentication. In theory those users could switch to authenticator apps (or pay ?) but they probably won’t.

Somebody asked whether dictionary-word passphrases (“correct horse battery staple”, like the ones generated by 1Password) are any good. Short answer: good means different things. Shorter answer: yes!

I’ll talk about why in a thread below.

Things you can do with zero-knowledge: prove that you performed some algorithmic process correctly.

Things you can’t do: prove that you kept a secret.

This is an important point that really limits what we can do with the technology.

This is going into a technical presentation someday.

I’ve joked that the collapse of FTX means we can reclaim crypto to mean cryptography. But in seriousness: I think it may be too late. I wonder how long it will take before “crypto” loses its negative connotations out in the real world.