July 2023 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Gov't Unveils Plans To Consolidate Small Pension Pots
by Gunnar Larson 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

Gov't Unveils Plans To Consolidate Small Pension Pots By Joel Poultney The government set out a framework Tuesday designed to consolidate the growing number of small pension pots, warning that future legislation might be necessary to prevent a savings scheme from being started every time someone begins a new job. Read full article » https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1698058?nl_pk=4fb41…

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Plan To Recast £2.5T Pensions Sector Raises New Risks
by Gunnar Larson 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

Plan To Recast £2.5T Pensions Sector Raises New Risks By Martin Croucher The government unveiled a set of reforms Tuesday designed to tap the U.K.'s £2.5 trillion ($3.2 trillion) pension sector for investment in new technology startups — but experts say the shakeup could lead to an uncertain future for millions of workers saving for retirement. Read full article » https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1698056?nl_pk=4fb41…

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Anarchist comrade freed from jail!
by professor rat 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/11/spain-anarchist-comrade-gabr… Reposts not welcome to Miami parties for anarchists defending Spring Break freedoms por favor

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GOP Lawmakers Want Crypto Broker's China Ties Investigated
by Gunnar Larson 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

GOP Lawmakers Want Crypto Broker's China Ties Investigated By Aislinn Keely A coalition of Republican lawmakers on Monday called on the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate potential ties between a crypto firm whose leaders testified before Congress on its novel path to registration under securities laws and the Chinese Communist Party. Letter attached https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/1697880?nl_pk=bd316618-088c-4274-ab…

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What To Expect From High Court's Whistleblower Case
by Gunnar Larson 11 Jul '23

11 Jul '23

What To Expect From High Court's Whistleblower Case The U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming decision in Murray v. UBS Securities will likely have widespread implications for the future of anti-retaliation whistleblower litigation, and could make it more difficult for would-be whistleblower-employees to succeed on anti-retaliation claims under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, say Ann-Elizabeth Ostrager and Diane McGimsey at Sullivan & Cromwell. Read full article » https://www.law360.com/banking/articles/1696378?nl_pk=99a2a594-20ad-4b2f-a2…

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CORRECTION: Judge Urged To Keep Wells Fargo Deal Stayed
by Gunnar Larson 11 Jul '23

11 Jul '23

CORRECTION: Judge Urged To Keep Wells Fargo Deal Stayed By Sydney Price An Ohio federal judge was urged by plaintiffs in a California lawsuit against Wells Fargo to continue halting proceedings on a $94 million deal settling claims the bank improperly sent mortgages of struggling borrowers into forbearance during the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing ongoing similar litigation may risk contradictory outcomes for plaintiffs. Response attached https://www.law360.com/banking/articles/1697229?nl_pk=99a2a594-20ad-4b2f-a2…

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GOP Reps Press Fed's Powell To Rev Up SVB Doc Hunt
by Gunnar Larson 11 Jul '23

11 Jul '23

GOP Reps Press Fed's Powell To Rev Up SVB Doc Hunt By Jon Hill Republicans on the House Oversight Committee pressed the Federal Reserve on Monday to turn over examiner reports, internal memos and other material they are seeking as part of a probe of Silicon Valley Bank's failure, escalating their requests to the central bank's top official. 2 documents attached https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1697822?nl_pk=8da16ff7-f140-…

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Coinbase Knew Securities Laws Applied, SEC Tells Judge
by Gunnar Larson 11 Jul '23

11 Jul '23

Coinbase Knew Securities Laws Applied, SEC Tells Judge By Aislinn Keely The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission told a New York federal judge that crypto exchange Coinbase knew its activity could lead to the current enforcement action against it, saying the firm repeatedly disclosed the risk that parts of its business could be subject to securities laws. Letter attached https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1697640?nl_pk=8da16ff7-f140-…

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Disbarred Atty To Pay $243M For Student Loan, Crypto Scam
by Gunnar Larson 11 Jul '23

11 Jul '23

Disbarred Atty To Pay $243M For Student Loan, Crypto Scam <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1697572?nl_pk=a931e1a0-e840-4de…> By Ryan Harroff A disbarred attorney who played a prominent role in a student loan scam and hid his cryptocurrency assets from the government during an investigation into those loans must pay $243 million in redress and civil penalties, a California federal judge has ruled. Order attached https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1697572?nl_pk=a931e1a0-e840-4de…

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[pq] grad thesis DGMT: A Fully Dynamic Hash-Based Group Signature
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 11 Jul '23

11 Jul '23

https://prism.ucalgary.ca/items/759f1bda-3e4f-4f4c-8ab6-4d247f216b0e https://prism.ucalgary.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/32f5d380-864b-4be7-ad6… 2023-07 DGMT: A Fully Dynamic Hash-Based Group Signature Erfanian Azad Soltan, Aylar Abstract Abstract With the rapid development of quantum technologies, quantum-safe cryptographic schemes have found significant attention. Shor’s quantum algorithms for breaking discrete logarithm (DL) and integer factorization (IF) problems will bring depredation for currently used public key algorithms, including RSA (Rivest–Shamir–Adleman), DH (Diffie-Hellman) key agreement, DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm) and ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography), which their security depends on solving mathematical hard problems (IF and DL problem). Therefore, applications and protocols must evolve to be quantum secure in the presence of quantum computers. It is believed that symmetric encryptions and hash functions are resilient to attacks by a quantum adversary. Therefore, signature schemes have been modified so that their security relies on hash functions instead of the aforementioned mathematical hard problems. In this thesis, we consider post-quantum digital group signatures, whose security depends on one-way functions. In practice, these functions are replaced by cryptographic hash functions, which are expected to remain secure in the presence of quantum computers. A group signature is a signature scheme that allows a group member to anonymously sign messages on behalf of the group, while anonymity can be annulled by an opening authority or group manager. In fully dynamic group signature schemes, new members can be added to the group after the initialization phase and existing members can be revoked from the group. The primary aim of this thesis is twofold. Firstly, it aims to conduct a comprehensive analysis of various hash-based group signature schemes, taking into consideration their security models, properties, and limitations. Moreover, this thesis contributes to the development of a novel fully dynamic group signature scheme, named DGMT, which addresses the limitations of previous schemes, and we prove its security (unforgeability, anonymity, and traceability), and provide the complete implementation of the this scheme for the first time. Secondly, the thesis intends to review and evaluate various revocation methods with the objective of identifying potential ways to improve the revocation method utilized in the proposed scheme

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