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Google's Neural Network Invents Its Own Encryption (arxiv.org)
3 points by sdebrule on Oct 27, 2016 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Three neural networks train against each other: one scrambles messages with a shared secret key, a partner unscrambles them, and a spy tries to read traffic, with no cipher rules. They learned to encrypt and decrypt well enough to keep the spy from reading them.

Abstract · Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography

We ask whether neural networks can learn to use secret keys to protect information from other neural networks. Specifically, we focus on ensuring confidentiality properties in a multiagent system, and we specify those properties in terms of an adversary. Thus, a system may consist of neural networks named Alice and Bob, and we aim to limit what a third neural network named Eve learns from eavesdropping on the communication between Alice and Bob. We do not prescribe specific cryptographic algorithms to these neural networks; instead, we train end-to-end, adversarially. We demonstrate that the neural networks can learn how to perform forms of encryption and decryption, and also how to apply these operations selectively in order to meet confidentiality goals.

Martín Abadi, David G. Andersen
arXiv:1610.06918 · cs.CR, cs.LG · submitted Oct 21, 2016
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