Cryptology and knot theory?
Perry E. Metzger
perry at piermont.com
Sat Jun 15 21:00:27 PDT 1996
Krister Walfridsson writes:
> 17.10.3. Ciphers are somewhat like knots...the right sequence of moves
> unties them, the wrong sequence only makes them more tangled.
> ("Knot theory" is becoming a hot topic in math and physics
> (work of Vaughn Jones, string theory, etc.) and I suspect
> there are some links between knot theory and crypto.)
>
> Has any work been done along those lines?
>
> I did some searches with AltaVista, but I only found Cyphernomicon...
I would have my doubts about how interesting the direction could get,
since knot theory is a dead area. The classification problem was fully
solved, and after that things got boring...
Perry
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