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Perfecting the Art of Sensible Nonsense
Amit Sahai, a computer science professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his collaborators have developed an "indistinguishability" obfuscator that many see as a watershed moment for cryptography.
Credit: Amit Sahai
As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Amit Sahai was fascinated by the strange notion of a "zero-knowledge" proof, a type of mathematical protocol for convincing someone that something is true without revealing any details of why it is true.
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