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72 points · 15 comments · Bluestein

  1. olooney · · focus · HN ↗
    I like Z3 a lot. I think it's criminally underappreciated and underused. Here is a fairly interesting use I put it to a few years ago:

    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oranlooney.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;playfair&#x2F;#known-plaintext-attack" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oranlooney.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;playfair&#x2F;#known-plaintext-at...

    Slightly more complicated than the toy examples shown in the documentation above, and hints at one of the real world use cases for Z3 - red teaming cryptography.

    That said, I&#x27;m not sure the documentation linked above is really doing it any favors in terms of helping popularizing it.

    1. lloydatkinson · · focus · HN ↗
      How does it compare to the others? I started trying to use Zinc but I get lost in all the vocabulary and literature which assumes you already have a background in it.
      1. Bluestein · · focus · HN ↗
        There&#x27;s also a neat shm library by that name. Namespace&#x27;s getting crowded :)
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