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“Most cryptocurrency barely has anything to do with serious cryptography,” Matthew Green, a renowned computer scientist who studies cryptography, told me via em
by sova 9y ago
“Most cryptocurrency barely has anything to do with serious cryptography,” Matthew Green, a renowned computer scientist who studies cryptography, told me via email. “Aside from the trivial use of digital signatures and hash functions, it’s a stupid name.”
Trivial use upon which the whole fabric of secure communications is built. Go read a book.
- supermatt 9y agoAre you suggesting we start calling secure comms crypto as well?
- sova 9y agoSecure Comms is already a short name that describes how they work. I fail to see why Crypto is a bad abbreviation for commodities that are based on cryptographically signed and cryptographically verified blocks. Just because the parthenon only uses a small amount of mathematics doesn't mean it's "not a geometric structure" -- it's in math books. I feel like Vice could be picking a better fight than "let's split hairs on jargon" especially when the word crypto is not going anywhere. How about this: Vice news isn't really "Vice"