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Video lecture delivered by Craigh Wright of him explaining his Tulip supercomputer
by Sam Johnston 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfoFFyypJxs -- sjsqd 💻 sjsqd.com ☺️ https://about.me/sjsqd 📮 https://twitter.com/sjsqd 📁 imdb.me/samjohnston 🔐 keybase.io/samjohnston 🔐 4EBE 18C0 E0E3 A874

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Answered: Why Donald Trump needs to speak with Bill Gates Before 'shutting down the intertubz'?
by Rayzer 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

"Donald Trump has suggested shutting down the Internet by migrating everyone to Internet Explorer 11. Claiming the web is dangerous and people are being radicalised through exposure, Trump has pledged to talk to Bill Gates in an effort to make certain content unavailable by increasing buffering times until they just get bored and decide not to be terrorists after all. Microsoft proudly boasts that downloading a single pdf copy of the Anarchists Cookbook over IE11 can take up to 17 hours, which would deter even the most dedicated jihadi. Trump has insisted that it would not be policy to shoot people who use Chrome and Firefox on sight, but they would be encouraged to walk down the street more often which amounts to much the same thing. “I’m gonna see Bill Gates about closing up that whole Internet doohickey,” Trump told reporters “We’re losing a lot of people because of the Internet. “We have to see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what’s happening. “We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some ways. Somebody will say, ‘Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.’ These are foolish people.” Bill Gates has reportedly claimed that shutting the Internet down will be dead easy as he’ll just introduce a Windows update every half hour or so, which should kill it stone dead." http://newsthump.com/2015/12/10/donald-trump-pledges-to-shut-down-internet-… -- RR "You might want to ask an expert about that - I just fiddled around with mine until it worked..."

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Save Crypto: Tell the White House We Can't Sacrifice Security
by grarpamp 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/save-crypto-tell-white-house-we-cant-… https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/publicly-affirm-your-support-stro… https://www.whitehouse.gov/webform/share-your-thoughts-onstrong-encryption

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Trotting out Muhammad Ali to accuse Trump of bigotry is like bringing out the KKK to Tolerance Week.
by Zenaan Harkness 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

Gotta give it to Daniel Greenfield - he sure knows how to grab a catchy phrase :) http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/261082/martin-luther-king-when-muhammad-a… Starts off slow, but picks up part way through: http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/261058/guide-progressives-trying-understa… :)

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Towards a practical and effective "TLS"?
by Zenaan Harkness 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

With the absurdity of HTTPS and certificates in mind, is a practical opportunistic transport layer link actual encryption: - possible? - worth pursuing (almost no one controls their hardware - "it's all VMs nowadays")? - if not worth pursuing, what set of attributes of a society ('national') level internet would need to be in place, for 'sane' opportunistic link encryption to make sense (e.g., mesh networks of various forms, physical server in every household, i.e. fully decentralise our networking, and server/host infrastructure)? - if worth pursuing, either now or after some level of attributes as named is in place, how might it look? Thanks, Zenaan

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Re: Feinstein and Burr Writing Bill To Kill Crypto
by John Young 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

Kill metadata and other crypto-issue-overdone diversions. Metadata and other crypto-workarounds resulted from the crypto wars of the 1990s which were bragged to be won rather than faked out. The fake-out was orchestrated by some of the very same crypto warriors claiming to be against gov-controlled crypto. A way to identify them is to note who rose to prominence and wealth in crypto com-edu-org. Still at it, ratcheting up the need for ever more crypto, acknowledging the workarounds but, but, but: Let's Encrypt, HTTPS-HTS everywhere, secure drops, freedom of the press and courage foundations, Snowden talks and tweets, FISC amicus curiea, POTUS and TLA advisories, industry lobbyists, dual hats riding the crypto gravy train and more likely, the subway out of sight. The money and prestige to be gained by working all sides of the crypto phony war is, as Greenwald crows of Omidyar's $250M bribe, irresistable. Crypto has always been a cheating game. Public key crypto even more so -- open source vetting: math marked cards. At 10:36 AM 12/10/2015, you wrote: >On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 1:14 AM, grarpamp <grarpamp(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > http://www.dailydot.com/politics/fbi-encryption-james-comey-tech-companies/ > > Laced with slimy playstation, predator, paris rhetoric. > >https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/no-matter-what-fbi-says-compromising-… >Said pathetic words occurring in hearing where FBI Comey drops pathetic. >Video above.

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certificate cleanliness sha1rightlol [was Re: [tor-talk] How does one remove the NSA Virus off the BIOS Chip as described by Snowden in the ANT Program]
by coderman 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

On 12/9/15, coderman <coderman(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 8:53 AM, grarpamp <grarpamp(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> ... >> Well it was an "F" grade so either it's fixed now or someone was >> jacking it along the way. > > sir, my military grade crypto is NSA-proof forever and ever, amen. > > ;P speaking of form whom it tolls, "TLSv1.2 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384" is better than https://peertech.org/files/wtfgmailtls10dec2015.png :o . . . [ ... ? :) ] best regards,

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Feinstein and Burr Writing Bill To Kill Crypto
by grarpamp 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/fbi-encryption-james-comey-tech-companies/ Laced with slimy playstation, predator, paris rhetoric. Y'all about to get fucked.

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Satoshi Nakamoto introduces, discusses bitcoin Oct-Nov 2008
by John Young 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

Satoshi Nakamoto introduces, discusses bitcoin Oct-Nov 2008 <http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-October/014810.html>http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-October/014810.html http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-November/subject.html#s…

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Original Bitcoin Paper Announced on Cryptography Mail List
by John Young 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> To: cypherpunks(a)al-qaeda.net, gold-silver-crypto(a)rayservers.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Fwd: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 20:20:14 -0400 References: <CHILKAT-MID-dd013ecc-8c7f-fc14-b1c5-cc9fd0181098@server123> Begin forwarded message: > From: "Satoshi Nakamoto" <satoshi(a)vistomail.com> > Date: October 31, 2008 2:10:00 PM GMT-04:00 > To: cryptography(a)metzdowd.com > Subject: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper > > I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully > peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party. > > The paper is available at: > http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf > > The main properties: > Double-spending is prevented with a peer-to-peer network. > No mint or other trusted parties. > Participants can be anonymous. > New coins are made from Hashcash style proof-of-work. > The proof-of-work for new coin generation also powers the > network to prevent double-spending. > > Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System > > Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would > allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another > without the burdens of going through a financial institution. > Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main > benefits are lost if a trusted party is still required to prevent > double-spending. We propose a solution to the double-spending > problem using a peer-to-peer network. The network timestamps > transactions by hashing them into an ongoing chain of hash-based > proof-of-work, forming a record that cannot be changed without > redoing the proof-of-work. The longest chain not only serves as > proof of the sequence of events witnessed, but proof that it came > from the largest pool of CPU power. As long as honest nodes control > the most CPU power on the network, they can generate the longest > chain and outpace any attackers. The network itself requires > minimal structure. Messages are broadcasted on a best effort basis, > and nodes can leave and rejoin the network at will, accepting the > longest proof-of-work chain as proof of what happened while they > were gone. > > Full paper at: > http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf > > Satoshi Nakamoto > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Cryptography Mailing List > Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)metzdowd.com

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