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Is it not cryptographically possible to create a transparent provably-operational decryptor on top of something like ethereum?
by bcjordan 9y ago
Is it not cryptographically possible to create a transparent provably-operational decryptor on top of something like ethereum?
- MichaelGG 9y agoIt's a marketing issue. People likely to get hit with ransomware are incredibly unlikely to understand what that means. Hell, even main devs have trouble writing contracts, so even if a user knew there was a smart contract, verifying it would be another thing. So it'd get reduced to "guys on Twitter said this one works". I like the idea though.
- rodarmor 9y agoSince you can't store the private key needed to decrypt the files in ethereum, I can't think of how to do this. All blockchain state is public, since it needs to be calculated by and verified by all nodes, so there's nowhere to stash a private key without revealing it.