Is There a Perfect Lock in Cryptography?

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cryptographer raphael pass believes that like, cryptography is math magic. He's looking for a unifying theory across all one way functions. So wed try to see whether it exists some kind of like mother problem or master problem That can tell us whether ony functions actually do exist or not. Tell me, has he? Has he figured this out? In 20 years or no, youre goin to like, tell me a whole story.

Today's internet is built on a series of locks and keys that protect your private information as it travels through cyberspace. But could all these locks be broken?

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