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Bitcoin philosophical musings and pressures 7 years in [drifted from: txrate, forking, etc]
by grarpamp 11 Jul '15

11 Jul '15

> Then again maybe I am missing the key reasoning for this fork. People often miss the fundamental reasons Bitcoin exists, the various conjoined ethos behind its creation. This is to be expected, it's so far ouside any thinking or life process they've ever had to do or been exposed to. It's also partly why figuring out what to do or code or adopt, is hard. And certainly not made any easier by the long term need and the current value at stake. Creating a system in which a Botswanan can give a few bits of their impoverished wages to their friend in Mumbai without it being gated, permitted, hierarchied, middlemanned, taxed, tracked, stolen and feed-upon until pointless... this simply doesn't compute for these people. Their school of thought is centralization, profit, control and oppression. So of course they see txrate ramming up against an artificial wall as perfectly fine, it enables and perpetuates their legacy ways. Regardless of whichever technical way the various walls are torn down, what's important is that they are. And that those who are thinking outside the box do, and continue to, take time to school these legacy people such that they might someday become enlightened and join the ethos. Otherwise might as well work for ICBC, JPMC, HSBC, BNP, MUFG and your favorite government. Probably not as much fun though.

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Bitcoin User??? A Euro worth of BTC for your thoughts...
by grarpamp 10 Jul '15

10 Jul '15

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Re: From: What: [and who?]
by coderman 10 Jul '15

10 Jul '15

On 7/10/15, Mirimir <mirimir(a)riseup.net> wrote: > ... > OK, how many remember waiting for a subpoena during Jim Bell's trial? > > Me, I'd subscribed through a remailer ;) i knew the domain should have stayed on Al-Qaeda.net ... Crypto Wars 2.0 and you're worried about receiving an email list? :P

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Re: From: root@hackingteam.it To: vince@hackingteam.it [and who?]
by BizDevCon 10 Jul '15

10 Jul '15

Yup, same here. â BizDevCon -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: From: root(a)hackingteam.it To: vince(a)hackingteam.it [and who?] Time (GMT): Jul 10 2015 07:17:57 From: list(a)sysfu.com To: cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:00:20 -0700, Tom <tom(a)vondein.org> wrote: > Wouldn't it have been enough to post the url? > > http://ptrace.fefe.de/fpalm30c3.jpg I actually appreciate content posted in message, get tired of having to fire up a browser for links. Also every click on a browser link is a potential attack whereas plain-text in an email is not.

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Re: [cryptography] Supersingular Isogeny DH
by coderman 10 Jul '15

10 Jul '15

On 7/8/15, Marcel <tiepelt(a)dev-nu11.de> wrote: > ... > So my question is, why do i need to random values m_A and n_A to compute > the torsiongroup E[l_A] and respectively the kernel K_A ? > > Why does is not suffice to use only 1 point to generate E[l_A] and > Kernel K_A ? it is late, and i may mis understand, yet the two are requisite for peers arriving at a shared secret by way of these constructed isogeny; and the random values necessary to not give too much (confirm secret values, without exposing secret values) i found this paper a helpful expansion on the subject: http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/techreports/2014/cacr2014-20.pdf "In this paper, we mainly explore the efficiency of implementing recently proposed isogeny-based post-quantum public key cryptography..." specifically the graph on page 5. note that the key exchange relies on finding a path connecting vertices in a graph of supersingular isogenies - thus a pair on both ends, not just a pair arrived at among both participants. if this is clear as mud, i will try tomorrow on a fresh brain :) best regards,

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Deathrow Democracy
by jim bell 10 Jul '15

10 Jul '15

Months ago, I discovered a TV-show in the making, called "Deathrow Democracy". Apparently it is a fictionalized treatment of Sanjuro's 'Assassination Market', as well as my 'Assassination Politics' essay. I just found they have a Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/deathrowdemocracyThey have a web page at: http://deathrowdemocracy.com/Teaser #1 at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okmZdquYCjETeaser #2 at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnDaDlOJDTY It appears that they are scheduled to release something on July 31, 2015. Jim Bell

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Re: Hacking Team has been hacked (hard, and long)
by Razer 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

On 07/08/2015 03:55 PM, coderman wrote: > On 7/8/15, Razer wrote: >> ... that may be from the day when >> people paid by the byte for internet service. Should I post the >> entirety? It's kinda long. > > JYA and me and history prefer verbatim, > and long since gone the days when bandwidth bytes begged brevity > > now, just /s TL;DR or ignore... [ and yes the whole thing :P ] > > > best regards, The bounceback to RiseUp mail triggered the possible ***SPAM*** indicator. Something that never happens with person-person emails. Apparently I'm NOT alone in the previously stated sentiment, or perhaps it's the number of links in the post. RR

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Hacking Team has been hacked (hard)
by Christian Gagneraud 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

As nobody has reported it yet, here we go: https://twitter.com/hackingteam

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WABC radio Seeks NYSE Outage Leads
by John Young 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Aaron Klein, WABC radio, NYC, seeks tips, leads on NYSE and other outages <AaronKlein21[at]<http://t.co/XM21l7QbTe>http://aol.com >

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Caspar Bowden has died
by John Young 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Privacy activist Caspar Bowden has died https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=…

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