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Cryptris : a video game about cryptography
2 points by lducas 4391 days ago
Hi everyone, especially French speaking fellas; I've beenworking on this popular science project for two years and I'm glad to announce it is finally out (in French only for now...). The game is in pure HTML5/Javascript and works on most systems, computers tablets and smartphones. It has built-in sharing capabilities on social media (but does not require any special accesstou your private data !!).

Play Tetris to decrypt messages using public key/ secret key mechanism :

http://inriamecsci.github.io/cryptris/

There are two articles to explain the underlying math on CNRS popular science blog : http://images.math.cnrs.fr/Cryptris-1-2-Comprendre-une-des.html

For now all this is only in French, but with your help we could maybe translate the game and the articles to many languages !

Good game !

- Leo Ducas http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~lducas/

1 comments

/bug

Really interesting premise but stuck at 98%. Mac and Chrome latest.

Had the same problem, typically adblock / ghostery blocking social networks buttons...
Yup. Works in incognito.

I didn't understand all the french :) but it looks very good. Game is smooth.

Is it two player ? That would be awesome !

I can't upvote so have my claps, //.