Time-lock Puzzles and Timed-release Crypto

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Rivest, Ronald L.; Shamir, Adi; Wagner, David A.
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Abstract
Our motivation is the notion of ``timed-release crypto,'' where the goal is to encrypt a message so that it can not be decrypted by anyone, not even the sender, until a pre-determined amount of time has passed. The goal is to ``send information into the
Date issued
1996-02
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/149822
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MIT-LCS-TR-684
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