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Modern academic cryptographers have veered off into a land of purely theoretical constructs. Now I love the cool theory we have in crypto, but it's sad that despite all this cool theory, very little of it becomes applicable in building practical privacy-preserving systems.

Rogaway, is a famed academic cryptographer, student of Silvio Micali, who basically founded modern academic cryptography. He is highly respected within the crypto community, so his words hold a lot of weight, and my interactions with crypto professors indicates that they agree with what he says.



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