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What are the implications of all this in other areas, fields and future of humanity in general?
by nottaken 14y ago
What are the implications of all this in other areas, fields and future of humanity in general?
- swordswinger12 14y agoIt's an important result for post-quantum cryptography. If (when?) quantum computers are ever generally deployable, existing ZK protocols with multiple provers will need to be modified using this result. Besides, a theoretical result doesn't need immediate applicability to be important to humanity. The study of quadratic residues in Euler's time was a sort of mathematical recreation, but 300 years later it gave us the QR hardness assumption and the Goldwasser-Micali scheme and its derivatives.