The distinction is crypto is applied. The axioms and rules don't require belief or faith - applied crypto has shown time and time again to require belief and faith. Crypto is opaque - but open. DES was once thought to be secure. RSA was once thought to be secure. PKI was once thought to be secure. -Travis On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:20:33PM -0500, dan@geer.org wrote:
John Young writes: | Comsec dream: secure means uniquely controllable by each person. | Free of faith, scripture, authorities, investors, apologists, exploiters.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. -- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943)
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need
Does this not describe the copyleft and copyfree software? Or maybe it describes a world where farmers figure out they can make more money by giving away all the food the world needs, and knowing when to sell the rest for profit?
But I have a hard time believing that mathematics is anything other than a testable shared belief, in which we all share faith.
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