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by ricardobeat 797 days ago
I’m way out of my depth here, but wouldn’t such a function have to encode an amount of information/state orders of magnitude larger than the definition of the function itself?

If this turns out to be possible, we will have found the solution to the Sloot mystery :D

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloot_Digital_Coding_System

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The article references patent “1009908C2” but I can’t find it in the Dutch patent site, nor Google Patent search.

The rest of the article has “crank” written all over it; almost certainly investor fraud too - it’d be straightforward to fake the claimed smartcard video thing to a nontechnical observer - though not quite as egregious as Steorn Orbo or Theranos though.

How can I not have heard of this before?! Sounds like the plot for a thriller movie.