Re: Where's Waldo? (challenge)

[sam stover <sam.stover () gmail com>]

der Mouse wrote:
> > > 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).


Yeah - I should have written "(when presented)" instead of "(when
read)".  Multiple presentations possible/probable.


-- 
S.f.Stover
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