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Re: [gsc] Fwd: Proof of Work -> atmospheric carbon
by R.A. Hettinga 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

On Jan 27, 2009, at 3:48 PM, info wrote: > There's also the concept of charging to receive e-mails. Yup. Sender pays, a whitelist for my friends, all others pay cash. Nothing new under the sun. The agorics guys prolly claim it :-), but I was one of those "people" Zooko talks about on cypherpunks. > Can you feed this message back their way, Robert? To paraphrase Telulah Bankhead to Chico Marx, and so I shall... Cheers, RAH

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[FYI] Dutch Government wants to regulate strong cryptography
by Axel H Horns 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/9763/1.html ----------------------------- CUT --------------------------------- Dutch Government wants to regulate strong cryptography Jelle van Buuren 09.10.2001 Action plan to combat terrorism targets modern communication technologies The Dutch Government announced Friday it wants to regulate the public use of strong cryptography. The regulation of cryptography is one of the measures the government is proposing in its action plan to combat terrorism. [...] ----------------------------- CUT ---------------------------------

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Re: Pseudonymity for tor: nym-0.1 (fwd)
by Jason Holt 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:32:24 +0000 (UTC) From: Jason Holt <jason(a)lunkwill.org> To: Ian G <iang(a)systemics.com> Cc: cryptography(a)metzdowd.com Subject: Re: Pseudonymity for tor: nym-0.1 (fwd) On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Ian G wrote: >Couple of points of clarification - you mean here >CA as certificate authority? Normally I've seen >"Mint" as the term of art for the "center" in a >blinded token issuing system, and I'm wondering >what the relationship here is ... is this something >in the 1990 paper? Actually, it was just the closest paper at hand for what I was trying to do, which is "nymous accounts", just as you say. So I probably shouldn't have referred to "spending" at all. My thinking is that if all Wikipedia is trying to do is enforce a low barrier of pseudonymity (where we can shut off access to persons, based on a rough assumption of scarce IPs or email addresses), a trivial blind signature system should be easy to implement. No certs, no roles, no CRLs, just a simple blindly issued token. And in fact it took me about 4 hours (while the conversation on or-talk has been going on for several days...) There are two problems with what I wrote. First, the original system is intended for cash instead of pseudonymity, and thus leaves the spender a disincentive to duplicate other serial numbers (since you'd just be accused of double spending); this is a problem since if an attacker sees you use your token, he can get the same token signed for himself and besmirch your nym. And second, it would be a pain to glue my scripts into an existing authentication system. Both problems are overcome if, instead of a random token, the client blinds the hash of an X.509 client cert. Then the returned signature gives you a complete client cert you can plug into your web browser (and which web servers can easily demand). Of course, you can put anything you want in the cert, since the servers know that my CA only certifies 1 bit of data about users (namely, that they only get one cert per scarce resource). But the public key (and verification mechanisms built in to TLS) keeps abusers from being able to pretend they're other users, since they won't have the users' private keys. <rant> The frustrating part about this is the same reason why I'm getting out of the credential research business. People have solved this problem before (although I didn't know of any Free solutions; ADDS and SOX are hard to google -- are they Free?). I even came up with at least a proof of concept in an afternoon. And yet the argument on the list went on and on, /without even an acknowledgement of my solution/. Everybody just kept debating the definitions of anonymity and identity, and accusing each other of anarchy and tyranny. We go round and round when we talk about authentication systems, but never get off the merry-go-round. Contrast that with Debevec's work at Berkeley; Ph.D in 1996 on "virtual cinematography", then The Matrix comes out in 1999 using his techniques and revolutionizes action movies. Sure, graphics is easier because it doesn't require everyone to agree on an /infrastructure/, but then, neither does the tor/wikipedia problem. I'm grateful for guys like Roger Dingledine and Phil Zimmerman who actually make a difference with a privacy system, but they seem to be the exception, rather than the rule. </rant> So thanks for at least taking notice. -J ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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