Using abstract algebra to refine privacy

When we talk about data privacy, we are considering any form of information encoding that converts your data into a representation that is secure and cannot be easily accessed or even interpreted by unapproved agents. There are several components and strategies to it, but clearly, the first thing that comes to mind is cryptography. Anyone who k... Read more 25 Jul 2023 - 17 minute read

Generating a nicer setting for Secret Santa

Every year my girlfriend and her friends organize their own twist of Secret Santa, but the overall rules are pretty standard. Recently, she was telling me about some recurring problem in the game: sometimes, non-trivial subsets of players end up ‘closed’ within themselves. Therefore, the original set of players gets partitioned, which breaks the... Read more 05 Mar 2023 - 7 minute read

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