[HN Gopher] Interview with Yael Tauman Kalai, a cryptographer at...
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       Interview with Yael Tauman Kalai, a cryptographer at Microsoft
        
       Author : digital55
       Score  : 91 points
       Date   : 2023-07-28 04:27 UTC (18 hours ago)
        
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       | matthewdgreen wrote:
       | Some of Yael's most prominent works include the original paper on
       | ring signatures [1], some important results around the Fiat-
       | Shamir paradigm for signatures [2], the invention of One-Time
       | Programs [3], some important work on interactive proofs [4], and
       | a bunch of early fundamental (negative) results on obfuscation
       | [5]. And these are just the things that spring to mind
       | immediately, nowhere near the majority of her output.
       | 
       | [1] https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RST01.pdf [2]
       | https://eprint.iacr.org/2003/034.pdf [3]
       | https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/One-Time-Programs-Gold...
       | [4] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-
       | content/uploads/... [5] https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0348
        
         | cryptonector wrote:
         | One-time programs are very interesting. They depend on
         | specialized hardware (not surprising), but we already have
         | precedent for such hardware, like TPMs. As usual, this would
         | have uses like DRM, but also lots of other uses that most users
         | will be more interested in.
        
       | haskellandchill wrote:
       | > I was a bit upset, because I thought, "I can't believe I could
       | have enjoyed this when I was much younger!"
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       | Yea, wish I had known about Galois theory when I was younger got
       | sucked into junk lit and computer games instead, now I have to
       | wait until I retire or get some economic buffer from grinding to
       | learn what I want.
        
         | wolverine876 wrote:
         | Sometimes I think a powerful factor in high-level
         | accomplishment is appreciating something valuable sooner than
         | others, which may depend on opportunity, luck, and the
         | capability to appreciate (e.g.) high-level art or math as a
         | teenager.
        
       | tester756 wrote:
       | >Kalai was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, in an academic
       | family. Her father, Yair Tauman, is an economist and game
       | theorist. Her high school classes bored her -- one report card
       | documented something like 150 school absences, she recalls, as
       | she preferred to spend her time water skiing and socializing. But
       | her analytical skills were always there.
       | 
       | >"When my parents didn't let me go out, often the only way to get
       | my dad to agree was to tell him, 'OK, give me a math riddle. As
       | hard as you want, but if I solve, I go.'" She usually went.
       | 
       | wow
        
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