The Millionaire’s Problem — In a World Where You Just Can’t Trust Anyone
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3 min readJul 27, 2019
With all the security breaches going around, Bob and Alice are now wealthy but have fallen out. In fact, they don’t trust each other anymore and don’t even trust Trent to audit their accounts. So how can Bob and Alice compare their wealth, and find out who has more, without them knowing how wealthy each of them is? This is known as the millionaire’s problem and is…