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Re: Where's Waldo? (challenge)


From: der Mouse <mouse () rodents montreal qc ca>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:16:51 -0400 (EDT)

All the "solutions" I've seen don't prove anything to anyone until
after the "proof" recipient has found Waldo - this may have been
acceptable by the intent of the original author of the problem, but
it's sure not how I read the wording.

So, we need to come up with a way to present information to the
competition that proves (when read), that we know the answer, without
giving away the answer?

It doesn't necessarily need to be just a one-way transfer of a single
blob of information; it could be interactive (as most - all? -
zero-knowledge proofs are).

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