A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering Some random thoughts about crypto. Notes from a course I teach. Pictures of my dachshunds. corrects IE6 width calculation google_ad_section_start(name=default) Thursday, November 27, 2014 One of the best things about modern cryptography is the beautiful terminology. You could start any number of punk bands (or Tumblrs ) named after cryptography terms like 'hard-core predicate', 'trapdoor function', ' or 'impossible differential cryptanalysis'. And of course, I haven't even mentioned the one term that surpasses all of these. That term is ' zero knowledge '. In fact, the term 'zero knowledge' is so appealing that it leads to problems. People misuse it, assuming that zero know...