---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 13:29:47 -0500 As of 1st Jan, I am no longer employed by Comodo Group or any other CA or browser provider. So I am looking at new directions. One of these is a video blog: PHB's CryptoWar which will follow my various interests from politics, to cryptography to prop making. To start it off: here are three commitments which are the names of three individuals who I expect to see indicted/charged with serious crimes in the near future: UDF=KD25H-GSNE2-JVVJE-RXTMA-7VAWT UDF=KCOO3-EKPAG-FKYFC-O2B2N-O3UUA UDF=KBR3A-RQLV7-SMB6X-6OB7X-JMBNT [These names are also known to at least two international news organizations who like myself are allowing the authorities to complete their work.] The kommitments provide a cryptographic means of proving that I knew something at a particular time without revealing it (yet). They demonstrate both the use of a digest function and the advantage of using a key. The next obvious technical topic to tackle is blockchain. Right now, blockchain is using more electricity than Ireland and minting several billion worth of new currency to process fewer transactions than a moderately busy CostCo. So what is the current state of the art on blockchain without proof of work? Harber and Stornetta suggested publication in the Times. Which is of course recourse to a higher level notary. The next obvious approach is a circular firing squad of notaries that cross notify. Has anyone published anything further I should present? Of couse, I could do what I usually do and re-invent stuff because I am too lazy to read the literature. But I rather doubt there is a literature in this case... ----------