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A rich contempt for the EFF
by professor rat 15 Aug '21

15 Aug '21

Our flawed founder had a couple of set attitudes I'd like to see formally ratified and maintained by this list. One was his idea that journalist privilege was a redundancy where-ever first amendment rights were recognized and the other was that the EFF style approach was orthogonal to our own ' cypherpunks write code ', direct-action approach. What say youse? He wasn't wrong about everything.

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Re: Snowden eviscerates Apple's plan to spy on your photos.
by Stefan Claas 15 Aug '21

15 Aug '21

On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 12:36 AM jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > I once heard a statement, something like: > > "Civilization advances by the number of important things you can do > without thinking about them". > > Found it: Alfred North Whitehead: > > > https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead#:~:text=Civilization%2…. > > "It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by > eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the > habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. *Civilization > advances by extending the number of important operations which we can > perform without thinking about them.* Operations of thought are like > cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, they > require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments." > > YOUR proposed solution amounts to DECREASING the number of important > things you can do without thinking about them. > > Can you see how that's backsliding? > > > No, I do not see it, assuming we still live in democratic societies, where people have the freedom[1] to choose from. Let me explain it a bit. I am almost online for 40 years now, been here and there and done this and that online. What I see is an IV. virtual Reich, where people are addicted by those IMHO stupid smartphones, doing things they really do not need for daily live and and that there moves can be globally controlled by third parties. I do not want to see postal stamps, letters and postcards or banknotes disappear, let alone the phone booths we had ... IMHO, what politicians could not accomplish in analog modus, they will accomplish it digitally, with the help of big tech companies. [1] Back to the roots with a Raspberry Pi and UUCP (for Usenet and email) with its additional *own static IPv6, free of charge* . Regards Stefan

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[old] Awesome Homomorphic Encryption
by Karl Semich 15 Aug '21

15 Aug '21

https://github.com/jonaschn/awesome-he # Awesome Homomorphic Encryption [![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge.svg)](https://awesome.re) > A curated list of amazing Homomorphic Encryption libraries, software and resources. ## Contents - [Libraries](#libraries) - [Toolkits](#toolkits) - [Applications](#applications) - [Databases](#databases) - [Resources](#resources) ## Libraries Libraries that can be used to implement applications using (Fully) Homomorphic Encryption. - [concrete](https://github.com/zama-ai/concrete) - Rust FHE library that implements Zama's variant of TFHE. - [cuFHE](https://github.com/vernamlab/cuFHE) - CUDA-accelerated Fully Homomorphic Encryption Library. - [cuHE](https://github.com/vernamlab/cuHE) - GPU-accelerated HE library for NVIDIA CUDA-Enabled GPUs. - [Cupcake](https://github.com/facebookresearch/Cupcake) - Facebook's Rust library for the (additive version of the) Fan-Vercauteren scheme. - [cuYASHE](https://github.com/cuyashe-library/cuyashe) - Based on leveled fully HE scheme YASHE for GPGPUs. - [FHEW](https://github.com/lducas/FHEW) - A Fully HE library based on [_FHEW: Bootstrapping Homomorphic Encryption in less than a second_](https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/816). - [FV-NFLlib](https://github.com/CryptoExperts/FV-NFLlib) - A header-only library implementing the Fan-Vercauteren scheme. - <a name="HEAAN">[HEAAN](https://github.com/snucrypto/HEAAN) - Scheme with native support for fixed point approximate arithmetic. - [HEAAN-Python](https://github.com/Huelse/HEAAN-Python) - Python binding for the [HEANN](#HEAAN) library. - <a name="HElib">[HElib](https://github.com/HomEnc/HElib) - BGV scheme with bootstrapping and the Approximate Number CKKS scheme. - [HEMat](https://github.com/K-miran/HEMat) - C++ implementation of matrix computation (addition, multiplication, and transposition) using [HEANN](#HEAAN). - [krypto](https://github.com/kryptnostic/krypto) - C++ implementation of multivariate quadratic FHE. - [Λ ○ λ](https://github.com/cpeikert/Lol) - "Lol" Haskell library for ring-based lattice cryptography that supports FHE. - <a name="lattigo">[lattigo](https://github.com/ldsec/lattigo) - Go library for lattice-based crypto that implements various schemes. - [libScarab](https://github.com/hcrypt-project/libScarab) - C library implementing a FHE scheme using large integers. - [libshe](https://github.com/bogdan-kulynych/libshe) - Symmetric somewhat HE library based on DGHV scheme. - <a name="SEAL">[Microsoft SEAL](https://github.com/microsoft/SEAL) - C++ FHE library implementing BFV and CKKS schemes.</a> - [NFLlib](https://github.com/quarkslab/NFLlib) - NTT-based Fast Lattice library specialized on power-of-two polynomials. - [node-seal](https://github.com/morfix-io/node-seal) - JavaScript/WebAssembly port of [Microsoft SEAL](#SEAL). - [NuFHE](https://github.com/nucypher/nufhe) - GPU-accelerated HE library, faster than cuFHE, that implements the [tfhe](#tfhe) algorithms. - <a name="PALISADE">[PALISADE](https://palisade-crypto.org/software-library) - lattice encryption library. - [petlib](https://github.com/gdanezis/petlib) - Python library that implements a number of Privacy Enhancing Technologies. - [Pyfhel](https://github.com/ibarrond/Pyfhel) - A Python wrapper for [SEAL](#SEAL), [HElib](#HElib), and [PALISADE](#PALISADE). - [python-paillier](https://github.com/data61/python-paillier) - Partially HE based on Paillier scheme. - [SEAL-python](https://github.com/Huelse/SEAL-Python/) - Python binding for the [Microsoft SEAL](#SEAL) library. - [SparkFHE](https://github.com/SpiRITlab/spark) - Apache Spark with an add-on for FHE computations. See [:page_facing_up:](https://homomorphicencryption.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/poster_5.pdf). - [TenSEAL](https://github.com/OpenMined/TenSEAL) - Library for HE operations on tensors, built on [Microsoft SEAL](#SEAL), with a Python API. - <a name="tfhe">[tfhe](https://github.com/tfhe/tfhe) - Faster fully HE: Bootstrapping in less than 0.1 seconds.</a> ## Toolkits - [ALCHEMY](https://github.com/cpeikert/ALCHEMY) - Haskell-based DSLs and interpreters/compilers, build on top of the lattice crypto library Lol. - [AWS HE toolkit](https://github.com/awslabs/homomorphic-implementors-toolkit) - Simplifies the process of designing circuits for the CKKS scheme. - [Cingulata](https://github.com/CEA-LIST/Cingulata) - Compiler toolchain and RTE for running C++ programs over encrypted data. - [E3](https://github.com/momalab/e3) - Encrypt-Everything-Everywhere framework for compiling C++ programs with encrypted operands. - [Google's FHE Repository](https://github.com/google/fully-homomorphic-encryption) - Libraries and tools to perform FHE operations on an encrypted data set. - [IBM FHE toolkit](https://fhe-website.mybluemix.net) - Including FHE ML inference with a Neural Network and a Privacy-Preserving key-value search. - [fhe-toolkit-android](https://github.com/IBM/fhe-toolkit-android) - IBM FHE toolkit for Android - [fhe-toolkit-ios](https://github.com/IBM/fhe-toolkit-ios) - IBM FHE toolkit for iOS - [fhe-toolkit-linux](https://github.com/IBM/fhe-toolkit-linux) - IBM FHE toolkit for Linux (Docker based Centos, Fedora, Ubuntu & Alpine editions) - [fhe-toolkit-macos](https://github.com/IBM/fhe-toolkit-macos) - IBM FHE toolkit for macOS - [Marble](https://github.com/MarbleHE/Marble) - C++ framework that translates between nearly plaintext-style user programs and FHE computations. - [SHEEP](https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/SHEEP) - HE evaluation platform with a set of native benchmarks and a library agnostic language. ## Applications - [crypto-geofence](https://github.com/Georeactor/crypto-geofence) - Geo-fencing demo application based on Paillier scheme. - [lattigo-polls](https://github.com/ldsec/lattigo-polls-demo) - Web-application for scheduling meetings using [lattigo](#lattigo). - [Morfix.io](https://morfix.io/sandbox) - Web-based UI to play around with the [Microsoft SEAL](#SEAL) library. - [nGraph-HE](https://github.com/IntelAI/he-transformer) - Deep Learning (DL) with HE through Intel’s DL graph compiler nGraph based on [SEAL](#SEAL). - [OpenMined](https://github.com/OpenMined) - Decentralized data ownership & intelligence based on HE and deep / federated learning. - [KotlinSyft](https://github.com/OpenMined/KotlinSyft) - Kotlin library for the Android part of the OpenMined's open-source ecosystem. - [PySyft](https://github.com/OpenMined/PySyft) - Python library for the server/IoT part of the OpenMined's open-source ecosystem. - [SwiftSyft](https://github.com/OpenMined/SwiftSyft) - Swift library for the iOS part of the OpenMined's open-source ecosystem. - [syft.js](https://github.com/OpenMined/syft.js) - JavaScript library for the web part of the OpenMined's open-source ecosystem. - [Rosetta](https://github.com/LatticeX-Foundation/Rosetta) - A privacy-preserving framework based on TensorFlow. - [tf-encrypted](https://github.com/tf-encrypted/tf-encrypted) - Bridge between TensorFlow and the [Microsoft SEAL](#SEAL) library. ## Databases - [CryptDB](https://github.com/CryptDB/cryptdb) - Protecting confidentiality with encrypted query processing. - [encrypted-mongodb](https://github.com/pdroalves/encrypted-mongodb) - Wrapper on MongoDB's Python driver that enables to query encrypted data. - [Prisma/DB](https://github.com/PrismaDB/PrismaDB) - Security layer for relational database systems. - [TimeCrypt](https://github.com/TimeCrypt/timecrypt) - Encrypted time-series database using homomorphic encryption-based access control. - [ZeroDB](https://github.com/zerodb/zerodb) - E2E encrypted database using proxy re-encryption. ## Resources - [Barak, Boaz](https://intensecrypto.org/public/lec_15_FHE.html). Chapter about FHE in Barak's introductory book to Cryptography, used for Harvard CS 127. - [Barthelemy, Lucas](https://blog.quarkslab.com/a-brief-survey-of-fully-homomorphic-encry…. Brief survey of Fully HE. 2016. - [Chen, Zhigang](https://zhigang-chen.github.io/A%20List%20of%20FHE%20Papers.html). A continuously updated list of FHE papers. - [Gentry, Craig](https://crypto.stanford.edu/craig/craig-thesis.pdf). A fully homomorphic encryption scheme. Stanford University, 2009. - [HomomorphicEncryption.org](https://homomorphicencryption.org). An open industry, government & academic consortium working on standardization of FHE. - [KU Leuven](https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/tag/cosic-guide-to-crypto/). An introduction to homomorphic encryption. - [Micciancio, Daniele](http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~daniele/LatticeLinks/FHE.html). Links to papers and implementations of Lattice Cryptography schemes. - [Microsoft Research](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7HFcN7LXRef-eTSGt_XOUJLZ…. Videos from SEAL/CKKS talks at Microsoft's Private AI Bootcamp. - [Vaikuntanathan, Vinoid](https://people.csail.mit.edu/vinodv/FHE/FHE-refs.html). A list of references about FHE, covering top papers in the field. - [Zhigang Chen](https://zhigang-chen.github.io/FHE%20Resources.html). A list of English and Chinese FHE and Machine Learning references. ## Related awesome lists - [awesome-cryptography](https://github.com/sobolevn/awesome-cryptography) - [awesome-crypto-papers](https://github.com/pFarb/awesome-crypto-papers) - [awesome-mpc](https://github.com/rdragos/awesome-mpc) - Multi-Party Computation. ## Contribute Contributions welcome! Read the [contribution guidelines](contributing.md) first. ## Like this work? ✨ Star this project on GitHub [![GitHub Repo stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/jonaschn/awesome-he?style=social… 🚀 Contribute further [awesome HE](https://github.com/jonaschn/awesome-he/edit/master/README.md) projects 💸 Spare me some ~~coffee~~ tea 🍵 via [Paypal](https://www.paypal.me/JonathanSchneiderDE/3) ## License [![CC0](http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/buttons/88x31/svg/cc-zero.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0) To the extent possible under law, Jonathan Schneider has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.

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Marketing anarchism for the masses
by professor rat 15 Aug '21

15 Aug '21

The world can handle a two-trillion-dollar crypto market and even a 20 trillion one. But, sooner or later they'll want to find out more about crypto-anarchism. In order to present in the most favorable light I suggest a two-pronged approach where libertarians are pushed out of crypto and Marxist-commies are pushed out of anarchism. A key ally is social-democrats ( Scandinavian style socialists ) who dislike Marxists and inverse-Marxists already. We can promise them best-practice democratic-socialist norms will be maintained and built on. Send me your ideas - in private if you like - that way - if they're any good I can steal them and claim full credit for myself. You know the drill - welcome to the welfare-globalist, new-order, revolution!

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EFF: If You Build It, They Will Come: Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship Around the World
by jim bell 15 Aug '21

15 Aug '21

EFF: If You Build It, They Will Come: Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship Around the World. https://www.eff.org/pt-br/deeplinks/2021/08/if-you-build-it-they-will-come-…

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McAfee a role-model for Jeff Berwick?
by professor rat 15 Aug '21

15 Aug '21

Before John Galton there was Greg Faull... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee#Death_of_Gregory_Faull

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Jim Bell stabbed by antivaxxers
by professor rat 15 Aug '21

15 Aug '21

Witnesses said it was like a scene out of ' Eraserhead ". " Children yet unborn will cry out in horror when they learn what happened to Jim ". Best Gore even refused to show news footage of the attack on the grounds of good taste. Its a sad day for humanity when our last best hope is so viciously and violently assaulted. Thoughts and prayers, Dr Fauci, concurred. " Thoughts and prayers ".

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WSOC Charlotte: Local doctor sees spike in patients seeking parasite drug for COVID treatment
by professor rat 15 Aug '21

15 Aug '21

After Jeff Berwick, Julian Assmange and Christopher Cantwell, you may as well go full antivax you stupid, NAZI-FAG-MORON, loser, eunuch. " Let it all hang out "

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Snowden eviscerates Apple's plan to spy on your photos.
by professor rat 15 Aug '21

15 Aug '21

Tim Cook must feel like he's being savaged by a sheep. https://www.google.com/search?q=Snowden+flag+wired&client=opera&hs=IpS&sour…

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[ot][crazy][draft] Fractured
by Karl 15 Aug '21

15 Aug '21

Bobby jacks into the digital mindwaves. It's breakfast. They used to have nicotine, alcohol, caffeine, and sugar for breakfast. That was decades ago. They flip their tongue a little to experience the doses of nicotine, alcohol, caffeine, and sugar they expect and resumed their work designing a new form of interplanetary travel based on propulsion systems that redesigned themselves for nearby resources. They had a potted plant in their window with a magical spirit. The magical spirit of their potted plant watched them as they sat at their breakfast table with their muscles twitching, darting their eyes and fingers around the empty space in front of them as they engaged an augmented reality. The magical spirit of the potted plant didn't just watch them. She was also watching the birds wake up and celebrate the morning outdoors, the magical spirits of the wind and rain race their fronts of pressure and humidity, a number of communities of insects, bacteria, and fungus she was in symbiosis with, and also Bobby's pet dog, Hypercookie, who was playing with a robot in the other room. [I ran into a cognitive issue here and wrote the issue down: Bobby was debugging an error in his model for environments needing new engine designs. It kept failing in I'm trying to write that the model is for choosing the general patterns for newly created designs based on patterns of newly encountered environments. My brain is refusing to simplify this expression for me. In the story, they have already finished the nn-based hyperculture that businesses are planning. The bug was going to be with a subset of these pattern groups, which Bobby had already broken into a roughly finite set. It was going to pick sets that were clearly wrong, often avoiding a subset of the correct sets in a wieghted way, and it was going to be due to a training error that stemmed from the architecture of the model combined with randomness in the data. He would go in and resolve the error by understanding the cause and manually redirecting the impact of the training data. This was going to be all simple and concise and only partly described. ][why doesn't he use an ai that understands the issue?][the space of meaning here is outside the distribution of commonly available nn models for him, and it would fix it wrong.] [what are your thoughts on changing how nn models are so that they can handle issues like this?] [it feels like something doesn't want that to happen, that it fears somebody would use the information, even accidentally, to do something horrible. but. I'll try to think on it a little. ...] [no it's ok you don't have to] [well I think about this a lot I just have to remember it. Ummm .... nn models seem to function really slowly. I might consider training a hierarchy of them around choosing architectures and mapping learning rates to individual weights, as a research focus. Assuming that then made fast training, I might make a second one around designing architectural information for new environments. I guess I'm expecting this to eventually learn it needs logical reasons and write code / design architectures around investigating the rules that cause things and using those directly. I think there's a lot of existing research around that, maybe i'd even make it the core and just use nn models to handle fluffy stuff quickly? fluffy being things where guessing based on lots of things less complex than reality is helpful, I guess. Just ideas. No real experience here. I dunno if that is helpful or ridicuous, don't really know how to tell]

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