April 2018 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Strong Privacy / Survivability [ref: ZKP, was: Proof of Work]
by grarpamp 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 7:26 AM, Natanael <natanael.l(a)gmail.com> wrote via cryptography@metzdowd: > Zero-knowledge proofs (and other topics) Bitcoin BTC and subsequent coins, all of them until no more than ~2 years ago, rolled out with massive downgrade to how fiat cash / banking work... in that entire blockhain transaction history both exists, and is visible to all. Without so much as consent or notice or pemission by anyone or anything, anyone can divine and rummage significant of your history at will forever. Horrible downgrade. Yet such existance and visibility are not requirements to a functional currency. Only that UTXO set [1] are considered by the system to be valid, thus acceptable and trusted as future inputs. Not required are the privacy destroying, colorable arbitrary fungibility breaking, forever datamined, unneeded disk bloating, etc nature of this major feature downgrade to existing p2p / proxied fiat. Back then perhaps true ZK crypto privacy or any other cryptographically strong privacy method was unknown / unimplemented. You may think of more methods. However system software network design validating and keeping only the UTXOs was more than likely possible. Of course to keep rogues software from datamining... strong crypto way is still needed. And having that, then all participants will discard all spent records as inefficient, forever unvisable, dead weight. You must think up such designs. Today strong privacy is generally thought at least possible, and has two different approaches implemented and deployed in active networks competing live in the marketplace today. You must review methods and approaches in the research, and further consider of how to move beyond entry level scale and even tx types there. Generally in coins... is up to users to choose use enable or disable privacy capable coins by default, per-tx, or other basis. And to you to awaken, where others may fail, why such coins exist. Cypherpunk philosophy cannot survive in any coin that is non private or readily blockable... only when encoded in coins that are only / selectably private, running as / in fully encrypted and resistant networks, with DEXs, mining, etc all as part. Which means that non private cryptocurrencies will not survive any different than fiat central in long term. You may think of many reasons why. Survivability is from and of many things... including elements of such philosophy. Much can and must be improved and implemented there. [1] Basic ledger transfers, yet even as possible to multisig, operations, contracts, etc.

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Re: #CensorshipKills
by grarpamp 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

Some may read based minimal on subject, text in article urls, other factors, and ride cleaner high of freethink without verbose stuffing of regurgitated mass media NLP riplines. Whereas HTML wrappers are but unnecessary max read of extra rubbish. Tis shame some alluded to activists have no commentary, thoughts, ideas, even simple solidarity in others... including those happened upon the fates. For that some, perhaps unnoted shall be their own causes and fate.

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Bitcoin support in the linux kernel?
by Georgi Guninski 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

I hear trustworthy gossips that the linux kernel will support bitcoin soon. m$ trolls troll that blockchain will be used for parallel solutions and mine/pay will give euid zero. Are they gone nuts? I will migrate to BSD if this happens, fuck.

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Unauthorized stingrays
by jim bell 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

DHS may have found unauthorized Stingray devices in Washington DC https://www.yahoo.com/newsroom/vibes/politics/v-dbb2094c-7d9a-37c0-96b9-7f8…

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Re: #CensorshipKills
by Razer 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

Undescribed, endlessly posted lists of gleaned links killfile. Buhbye. null

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[MINISTRY] Juan's ZeroHedge article - “Not All Teens are Begging for their Rights to be Taken”
by Zenaan Harkness 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

Well duh! Much that folks round here could agree with. (links in original) Not All Teens are Begging for their Rights to be Taken https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-04/not-all-teens-are-begging-their-r… Via The Daily Bell Authoritarianism creeps in from seemingly unlikely places. Government officials will start with a premise that seems pretty legit. “Kids need to be protected. In order for parents and officials to protect them, kids can’t have full rights like adults.” As child labor, compulsory schooling, and other “protective” laws have accelerated over the last 100 years, the definition of “child” has gone from something like under 14-years-old to 16, 18, and 21 in many cases. But don’t worry, it’s just “kids” that don’t have rights. It’s just that American society considers people in their early twenties “kids.” In fact, you can’t even run for the House of Representatives until age 25. According to what America fought its war of independence over–“No taxation without representation”–people under 25 should be exempt from federal taxes. And yet the media has manipulated teens into marching not to have their human rights restored, but to take more of their rights away. They want to make sure no one under 21 can protect themselves. This again is one of those things that sounds like a reasonable idea. “Teenagers are unstable, we don’t want them having guns!” Of course, 15-year-old gang members already seem quite capable of getting guns. And basically any 15-year-old in America can get cigarettes, alcohol, and illegal drugs. So instead of protecting “kids,” and protecting society from “kids,” these rules serve only to infantilize teens. It is a spiral–as teens are more restricted, they lash out in protest, which is used as further evidence of the need to restrict them. “Disturbing Schools” and “Disorderly Conduct” Teens are deprived of their liberty by being forced to attend public schools. And while forced to attend, they are subject to arbitrary and vague laws. In South Carolina, almost 10,000 students under 16 have entered the criminal justice system due to laws against “disturbing schools,” and “disorderly conduct.” Ironically, students over 16 were not included in the statistics because they were charged as adults. So they don’t have the rights that adults have, but they can still be treated like an adult by the criminal justice system. Students were charged for things like recording a school resource officer pulling a girl from her desk, throwing her to the ground, and handcuffing her. Students sued with the help of the ACLU. The court found that the laws chill freedom of expression and present a credible threat that students will be prosecuted for exercising their rights in the future. [The Court] determined [PDF] multiple students arrested and charged with violating the state’s “disturbing schools” law and “disorderly conduct” statute made sufficient arguments that the statutes are too vague for students to know what conduct will be interpreted as violating the law. The appeals court found the claims that they chill students’ exercise of free expression, “forcing them to refrain from exercising their constitutional rights or to do so at the risk of arrest and prosecution,” were valid. It vacated a district court decision and remanded the case. Some people think schools need to be tough on teens to teach them discipline. The problem is that this only teaches obedience to arbitrary authority, and filters the resistance into the prison system. Hardening schools is not the way to go. School is alleged to prepare kids for jobs. The key difference is that jobs are not compulsory. You can choose a job based on a number of factors. There are countless options if you don’t like the rules or atmosphere of one workplace. But school is forced on kids. Without their consent, they are placed in a building where they have to obey orders, ask permission to use the bathroom, eat at specific times, and study what they are told to study. They have no choice in the matter. But cracking down on the dissidents with more and more authoritarianism, unfortunately, does prepare them for real life. Hardening schools shape students to live in a hardened society. They may not learn math and reading, but they learn how to interact with the state: obey or meet violence. Schools are starting to look more like jails. What do you think will be the result on society, when generations of children have been brought up indoctrinated to think that it is normal for the government to search them, monitor them, question them, and dictate every second of their day? Removing arbitrary laws like the ones in South Carolina is a great start, but it doesn’t get at the deeper problem. But there are other positive signs that solutions are brewing to cure the underlying disease. Free Range Parenting Utah passed a law to clarify that parents cannot get in legal trouble for allowing their otherwise well cared for children some autonomy. For instance, if a child is not otherwise neglected, allowing them to walk to school and play alone at the playground at an appropriate age cannot be considered child abuse or neglact. This cuts to the core of the problem because parenting styles that are not as mainstream cannot be considered illegal. But the theory behind free-range parenting has merit. It is based on the science that says coercion leads to psychological problems. A sponsor of the law had it right when he said: Kids need to wonder about the world, explore and play in it, and by doing so learn the skills of self-reliance and problem-solving they’ll need as adults. As a society, we’ve become too hyper about ‘protecting’ kids and then end up sheltering them from the experiences that we took for granted as we were kids. The structure of public school is so bad that it really should be thrown out. There is really no reason in the modern era to have compulsory public schools. The state cannot properly design a society from the top down. It has been tried and always fails. But allowing schools to control kids in public schools is allowing them to design society. The reason free-range parenting works is because it admits that even parents, with the best interests of their children in mind, cannot always know how to dictate the best course for their children. So instead of helicoptering, they let go of a little control and allow their children autonomy. Five Ways Schools Destroy Children’s Freedom (and what to do about it). 7 Reasons to Shut Down Public Schools Immediately and Permanently. You don’t have to play by the rules of the corrupt politicians, manipulative media, and brainwashed peers.

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#CensorshipKills
by grarpamp 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGkRAMSoGJU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dgt6bUw80M https://twitter.com/search?q=%23censorshipkills

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Elliptic curves: point at infinity revisited
by Jan Dušátko 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

Another step in the Elliptic Curve Cryptography https://trustica.cz/en/2018/04/05/elliptic-curves-point-at-infinity-revisit… https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6387547111046594561 -- Jan Dušátko Phone: +420 602 427 840 e-mail: jan(a)dusatko.org SkypeID: darmodej GPG: http://www.dusatko.org/downloads/jdusatko.asc

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Cryptocurrency: AMA with Mt Gox / Karpeles
by grarpamp 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/89o16y/im_mark_karpel%C3%A8s_exce… https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/89o171/im_mark_karpel%C3%A8s_exceo_of… https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/89k4gh/mike_hearn_will_be_returning_b… https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin+CryptoCurrency+btc/top/?sort=top&t=month https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/89mwk0/why_i_personally_be…

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Re: Fwd: Pursuance's Progress: Updates Galore! 💥
by Razer 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

Actually, BB's immersed in video games and twitter. Maybe these other guis are doing something and barrett's donating his irl persona? Rr null

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