[Cryptography] "Google teaches “AIs” to invent their own crypto and avoid eavesdropping"

[Tom Mitchell]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Jerry Leichter <leichter at lrw.com> wrote:

> Summary:  Alice, Bob, and Eve are neural nets; Alice and Bob share a key.
> Alice tries to send messages to Bob.  Bob is rewarded for correctly reading
> the messages; Eve is likewise rewarded for correctly intercepting them;
> Alice is rewarded when Eve fails (and Bob succeeds, I guess).
>
> In the experiments reported, Alice and Bob turn out to be pretty good at
> fooling Eve, who proves to be a mediocre cryptanalyst.
>
> And next we'll get bots posting their proposed algorithms to any crypto
> list that will have them.... :-)
>
> Writeup at http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/
> 10/google-ai-neural-network-cryptography/; paper at
> https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.06918v1.pdf.  Reference to an XKCD I hadn't
> seen before in a comment:  https://xkcd.com/177/
>
>
Interesting and a necessary next step.
Designing algorithms and implementing them is hard.
Testing is harder...
News at 11:00



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