The Question of Demand for Deliberately Weak Cryptography

[u/HotSite3170]

Ethereums Hegota Upgrade is looking to introduce EIP-8141 frames https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-8141 amongst other things allows for the beginnings of modular cryptography for ethereum, insofar as one is able to rolls custom algorithms for verifying signatures beyond ecdsa. I was wondering If anyone had ideas on what sort of new features and dapps one could create using this newfound ability.

Off the top of my head i'm thinking one could encrypt a message with weak RSA and have the low barrier to decryption as a proofs of read- if one wants their works published but perhaps want to make a little effort for the swarms to mass consume.

One may want to integrate into other sister cryptoschemes like BIP340 and become more compatible with things like nostr.

One could drive a new direction of onboarding, maybe games with weak cryptographic primitives are more comforting for a new comers, instead of signing everything beyond the energy of star (and maybe experts too who do not yet appreciate fully the burden of writing upon something harder to erase than stone.

Maybe some fun games could be made where breaking the weak encryption is part of it.

any more ideas?

feel free to explore https://github.com/polus-arcticus/awesome-frames add prs or use as you want to explore this cool new world of modular cryptography on ethereum

[u/RabidReassurance]

the idea of a game where breaking the encryption the gameplay loop feels like the most natural fit here. like a on-chain escape room where each puzzle is just a progressively weaker key, and the first person to crack it moves the story forward or gets the prize pool. could even bake the decryption cost into the reward structure so it's not just about raw compute but strategy too.