Month: May 2017

Disclaimer: This was the culmination of a series of thoughts in 2016 that led me to think about what it would take to send textures over the internet. What is written is not comprehensive, backed by evidence, or even true. Yet, it is left here as a testament to my willingness to explore the ideas in my head no matter how outlandish they may be. I also like the artwork, and it would be a shame for it to go to waste!

We can electronically send sounds, words, images, videos, and many more types of information. Combinations of these data types can create a convincing reality whether it is simple a video or a whole world to be experienced through VR, but there are still many forms of data that we have yet to be able to send electronically such as smell and texture. The problem is that we do not know how to convert these ideas into electrical signals that are easily transferable between devices and then reconverted back using hardware.

Disclaimer: This white-paper is an older idea of mine that I wrote when exploring the field of encryption around 2015. It has some wrong notions of modern encryption, and is not meant to represent my current thoughts or opinions. Beyond this, it is not written clearly or intuitively, thus is probably unreadable. It will remain on this site for two reasons: One, it can act as a testament to the fact that I tried to come up with original ideas, even when I was not fully equipped to tackle the problem space. Two, I like the artwork I made.

The goal of encryption is for one user to send a message to another user without anyone else being able to understand the message.

The way we do encryption today is using the public key method. This involves two keys: the public key and the private key.

The user who is sending something has the public key, and the user who is receiving the data has the private key.