To Schnorr and beyond (Part 1)

Warning: extremely wonky cryptography post. Also, possibly stupid and bound for nowhere.

One of the hardest problems in applied cryptography (and perhaps all of computer science!) is explaining why our tools work the way they do. After all, we’ve been gifted an amazing basket of useful algorithms from those who came before us. Hence it’s perfectly understandable for practitioners to want to take those gifts and simply start to apply them. But sometimes this approach leaves us wondering why we’re …

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