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Cryptocurrency: Scaling, Privacy [re: on whatever...]
by grarpamp 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

>> It is woefully unfortunate that the first cryptocurrency >> Bitcoin-BTC did not offer much (on privacy) therein thus setting >> and tricking the entire space into abysmally low >> thought expectations for a decade. > > hard to tell if bitcoin's limitations were there on purpose or the author > didn't know better. And some of the sense of need and technology for coin privacy (and other things) probably wasn't exactly well developed in the space yet. Today there's no excuse, and certainly not for any coin to skip devoting a clear section of their whitepapers to their privacy position. And to other classic problems. > At any rate on-chain scaling doesn't...scale Everything must roll up, so whatever schemes people try to layer and split it up, it's all still one big network... subject to same aggregate laws of bandwidth and cpu. > problem gets worse when you add privacy features. That's probably still an open question. 1 billion people transacting once a day is 11575 tx/s. That's roughly all humans on the planet once a week. As below, that may be a high estimate. Which is good because if you arbitrarily choke the tx processing core of a coin down to 1Mbps, that allows only 10B/tx. Today Monero and Zcash are something like 2kB/tx. It may be easier to lower tx size under some type of general zero knowledge mask. To model txrates you'd have to play around with various Fermi estimates... - Combine with stats from Visa, cash, cows, metals, securities, etc... - How people might restructure their life's behaviours around what coins can offer... - How people of different ages ability interest will proxy through others... - How people might deploy and keep various wallets, confirms, mines, relays running... - What numbers of each are needed to maintain distributed resiliency... - What happens as governments dissolve under adoption... - If #Open #Audited banks arise to issue own paper... - If hundreds of #Open #Audited decentralized standard crypto clearing houses arise... - If metals and other forms come back into prominance... - If a secure general purpose overlay network helps transform some privacy requirements into secure transport requirements... - What happens when move to UTXO db's is made... - How today's privacy coin tx sizes might improve... - If ledger models are augmented by serialized bill passing... - Many more factors to consider... Even today... 100Mbps core @ 4B ppl/wk ~= 2kB/tx > expect bitcoin developers to fix bitcoin's problems or be outcompeted Due to their history of positions on not doing anything, combined with forum censorship, and other questions... if BTC ever does do something, probably now clearly only to prevent from dropping below 50% relavance or further under advancing competition, they'll become a laughing stock due to last minute position reversal, at that point mooting remaining vision and trust. That competition is coming. They will have to abdicate their all their dev and other positions off to a new generation of maintainers and advocates in order to truly save face of BTC. Or maybe BTC will remain on top, or maybe the entire cryptocurrency space will go to zero. Have fun :)

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Sunday Sermon: How to Break Pornography Addiction and Quit Masturbating - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

So OK, Epstein did not kill his elf, OK <white power version of OK>, but we have real problems, for your Soul, for your power, for your creativity. The Kundalini is the source of creative power. Sexual release, uses, as in releases, Kundalini. Dopamine is addictive. Power to pursue your goals and manifest creativity with vigour, depends on Kundalini. Create your world, Sunday Sermon: How to Break Pornography Addiction and Quit Masturbating http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/sunday-sermon-how-to-break-pornography-addict… -- 7 day challenge, muffas! Do not wake the snake for 7 days. Start with a 3 day challenge...

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transport tech - Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology
by Zenaan Harkness 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/recently-retired-usaf-general-makes-ey… https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31445/recently-retired-usaf-general-m… ... Lt. Gen. Kwast most recently served as Commander of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) at Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA), but retired in August. According to some reports, Kwast was prematurely relieved of his duties at JBSA https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/08/08/air-force-generals-supporter… and blacklisted for promotion after speaking out on space-related issues https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/434651-space-diplomacy-a-bett… despite a service-wide gag order. Kwast declined to comment on the reports and retired on September 1, 2019. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItL2-UikIwU Despite the controversy surrounding his removal from his post at AETC, some defense analysts and Lt. Gen. Kwast’s own supporters within the Armed Forces were suggesting prior to his retirement that he should be appointed as Commander of the Pentagon's budding Space Force. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31420/space-force-looks-go-for-launch… Kwast has published several op-eds in recent years pushing for the U.S. military to take on a greater role in space https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/10/space-race-kwast-768751 in order to ensure American economic dominance and what he sees as the continued proliferation of American values. ... Sounds "probably quite sinister" - it's time we aligned with aliens OTHER than the damned war mongering Grays! Seriously! May be our Russkie bros have better contacts...

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TAZs
by Steven Schear 15 Dec '19

15 Dec '19

Talk on "Container TAZ" by @TheRealSmuggler and @thefrankbraun, given yesterday at @paralelnapolis Slides: https://frankbraun.org/container-taz.pdf How conflicts work, how to attack the OODA loop, TAZ concept, TAZ examples, container TAZ, and long-term vision. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FKaTMseh9wE

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Cryptocurrency: Bitcoin on EconTalk Podcast March 2011
by grarpamp 15 Dec '19

15 Dec '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umlF4z_rpHM

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Fwd: [nncp-devel] [EN] NNCP 5.2.1 release announcement
by Shawn K. Quinn 15 Dec '19

15 Dec '19

ICYMI -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [nncp-devel] [EN] NNCP 5.2.1 release announcement Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 12:29:40 +0300 From: Sergey Matveev <stargrave(a)stargrave.org> To: nncp-devel(a)lists.cypherpunks.ru I am pleased to announce NNCP 5.2.1 release availability! NNCP (Node to Node copy) is a collection of utilities simplifying secure store-and-forward files and mail exchanging. This utilities are intended to help build up small size (dozens of nodes) ad-hoc friend-to-friend (F2F) statically routed darknet delay-tolerant networks for fire-and-forget secure reliable files, file requests, Internet mail and commands transmission. All packets are integrity checked, end-to-end encrypted (E2EE), explicitly authenticated by known participants public keys. Onion encryption is applied to relayed packets. Each node acts both as a client and server, can use push and poll behaviour model. Out-of-box offline sneakernet/floppynet, dead drops, sequential and append-only CD-ROM/tape storages, air-gapped computers support. But online TCP daemon with full-duplex resumable data transmission exists. ------------------------ >8 ------------------------ The main improvement for that release is: Fixed SP protocol error handling, sometimes causing program panic. ------------------------ >8 ------------------------ NNCP's home page is: http://www.nncpgo.org/ Source code and its signature for that version can be found here: http://www.nncpgo.org/download/nncp-5.2.1.tar.xz (1109 KiB) http://www.nncpgo.org/download/nncp-5.2.1.tar.xz.sig SHA256 hash: 983D1A8A 4398C281 76356AE1 C5541124 B0755555 D115063B D1388F85 9C4A6B3E GPG key ID: 0x2B25868E75A1A953 NNCP releases <releases(a)nncpgo.org> Fingerprint: 92C2 F0AE FE73 208E 46BF F3DE 2B25 868E 75A1 A953 Please send questions regarding the use of NNCP, bug reports and patches to mailing list: https://lists.cypherpunks.ru/pipermail/nncp-devel/ -- Sergey Matveev (http://www.stargrave.org/) OpenPGP: CF60 E89A 5923 1E76 E263 6422 AE1A 8109 E498 57EF -- Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn(a)rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com

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Quality Time, Sweetheart: Some Principles on Dangerous Crypto
by Spirit of Nikopol 15 Dec '19

15 Dec '19

- Underkill or overkill: which is more secure? Quality time, sweetheart. - Cryptographic security rests on time. This is why the strength of a cipher is measured in "polynomial time" or "exponential time." Quality time, sweetheart. - Quantum time is a theory at this point. It is a lame conjecture. Do not trust theories and conjectures. Trust quality time. - Obscurity is a time buffer. Until the obscure is unobscured, time is working effortlessly against the effort of attack. (!blasphemy!) - Ciphertext, keys, and digests are like toothpase: whiten, whiten, whiten. Use separate whitening vectors for all. - Industry standard crypto is always insufficient for dangerous messages. There must be a time-to-generate bottleneck. - One-time pad injects a time bottleneck approaching functional infinity. - Industry standard crypto gets bugged and broken regularly. Using it can produce a secure, self-signed death warrant. - The longer a decipherment key takes to generate the more secure the ciphertext will be. (time-to-generate delay) - The longer the bottleneck the longer it takes for your adversary to drink your beer. - The longer the bottleneck the less of your bit-booze the enemy can drink. - The hassle of exchanging one-time pads is much less than the hassle of digitally signing your own death warrant. - With random one-time pads you run zero risk of secretly borked crypto algorithms. - If doubt is bad, use the one-time pad. Otherwise, bottleneck, bottleneck, whiten, whiten, obscure, obscure. - If it has not been 100% proven secure, why would you assume it is secure? - The prophetess of Delphi is not your human shield. Standard assumptions in the oracle don't stop bullets. - When borked 'standard crypto assumptions' buy you a ticket to the gangplank will the academic researchers be there to sell you shark repellant? - Just because you don't know that anyone has broken a cryptography scheme, does not mean it hasn't been broken. - Why would your adversary publish the fact that he has broken your cryptography? - Rather it may mean your adversary is practicing security through obscurity, which has won many battles. (!blasphemy!) - When you are using anything besides OTP then time is your only friend. Your scheme must tack on the time. - Security through obscurity worked for dozens of historical military commanders (who were not sitting in ivory towers.) - If security through obscurity is always bad then why do trade secrets generate billions in profits? - If security through obscurity is always bad then why do armies and governments use it every day? - What was said about casting pearls before pigs? - The more obscure your means of communication, the more time your adversary must invest to uncover it. - An exponential increase in required key attack time is often an exponential increase in safety, if your scheme is secure. - University cryptographers are smart. But who signs their paychecks? Is it the same Sam who signs NSA paychecks? - Does the academic who pumps a certain unobscure cryptosystem have a life insurance policy on you? Is your cryptography advisor invested in noose stocks? - Will the pumpers of a certain cryptosystem support your family when you are doxed or dead or disappeared? - Provable security of a dangerous cryptosystem does not make it safe or secure. It must also be deeply obscured from view. - Web site crypto keys are vouched for by state-licensed actors. Need we say more? Dangerous crypto should also be obscured by quality time. - Generally the more time you take to secure your communications the more time your adversary needs to attack. - Why settle for 2 ^ 256 when 2 ^ 256 million is a clear winner? - Why settle for one algorithm when you can cascade many? - Envelope Superencryption of many algorithms is not necessarily limited to strength of its weakest algorithm. (!blasphemy!) - Basket encryption and stacking pancakes: If 16 superencryptions are used with 16 different algorithms then the attacker must spend time to correctly guess each algorithm in the correct order with the correct keys or breaks. 16 pow 16 = 18446744073709551616 combinations, before we've even addressed possible keys. If your basket of available algorithms is larger than 16, this time injection can get unwieldy for attackers, even if the attacker has a quantum 'flux capacitor.' - When your life or liberty is at stake, to hell with efficiency. Churn, baby, churn! - Peer review and public availability of a cryptosystem are not magic guarantees that weaknesses or flaws will be found. Remember, if a cryptosystem is broken, bad actors who borked it are not going to tell you. That obscurity is their advantage. The counter to this advantage is polymorphism, chains of superencryptions, and using as much obscurity as you can to inject all the time delay you reasonably can. ------------------------------------------------- S P I R I T O F N I K O P O L Don't swap synthetic brains for your real brains. broadcast on BitMessage (https://bitmessage.org) subscribe: BM-NBEz3C1WktcyMZwVRWgDNGpU5gMRZ2iT

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Le Cirque du Demoncracy continues - Anti-Impeachment Democrat Jeff Van Drew Defects To GOP - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 14 Dec '19

14 Dec '19

Amazing stuff, now we have "Democratic" party MPs jumping ship to join the Republican party: Anti-Impeachment Democrat Jeff Van Drew Defects To GOP https://www.zerohedge.com/political/anti-impeachment-democrat-jeff-van-drew… https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/14/jeff-van-drew-change-parties-085036 ... On Saturday, Van Drew's congressional and campaign staff were notified of the expected switch, Democratic sources tell Politico. The only question which remains is when he will make the move official given next week's House impeachment vote expected for Wednesday. ... Interdasting times...

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Spirit of Nikopol - Ten Rules of Resistance for the Reluctant Revolutionary
by Spirit of Nikopol 14 Dec '19

14 Dec '19

Announcing the anonymous Bitmessage broadcast: S P I R I T O F N I K O P O L Don't swap synthetic brains for your real brains. broadcast on BitMessage (https://bitmessage.org) subscribe: BM-NBEz3C1WktcyMZwVRWgDNGpU5gMRZ2iT copy and paste this address in the BitMessage 'Subscriptions' tab Ten Rules of Resistance for the Reluctant Revolutionary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0. Don't swap synthetic brains for your real brains. 1. Don't get prosthetic foreheads for your real heads. 2. Don't get a rock to wind a piece of string around. 3. Do not follow a multitude to do evil. 4. When they put you in the machine then you have a fighting chance to escape. 5. When you put the machine in yourself then you are dead. 6. There is no bionic man - only bionic slaves. 7. Oppose synthetic parts. Remain digitally pure. Safeguard electronic purity. 8. If they might be giants then we might be shepherds with slingshots. 9. Remember robots' rules: disallow harming humans. 10. Hack the machines (to death). ------------------------------------------------- S P I R I T O F N I K O P O L Don't swap synthetic brains for your real brains. broadcast on BitMessage (https://bitmessage.org) subscribe: BM-NBEz3C1WktcyMZwVRWgDNGpU5gMRZ2iT

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Rubbernose / Rubberfuse - Continuation of Rubberhose-FS
by grarpamp 14 Dec '19

14 Dec '19

https://hetgrotebos.org/wiki/rubbernose https://wizzup.org/ Rubbernose - Rubberfuse is a continuation of the work done on Rubberhose-FS by Julian Assange et al. We're still in the planning phase. (status since 2013, just a reference)

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