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Revolution amoung subsets of a population is no revolution. What is need is a mainstream movement to embrace crypto as a fundamental human right. ____________

by nxzero 10y ago

Revolution amoung subsets of a population is no revolution. What is need is a mainstream movement to embrace crypto as a fundamental human right. ____________ Sidebar: The article is part of "Passcode" - a field guide to security and privacy from The Christian Science Monitor: http://passcode.csmonitor.com http://passcode.csmonitor.com

happyslobro 10y ago
It always starts underground. When it breaks out into the mainstream, it won't even be a movement anymore, it will just be life as usual. That green lock will be gone from the browser, along with any protocols that do not end in "s". The dozen or so communications apps on your phone will be encrypting everything, but not exposing any configuration. And, only one company will sign everyone's public key, because regular users just want to delegate everything to a familiar name. Then we will need another revolution, an underground network of public key signers. With names like 51GNpnk and TheRealBob. One of TheRealBobs will come smoke a joint with you in your parent's basement, and sign your key for $5, so that you can get into the Minecraft party on the weekend.
- dijit 10y ago
  This is the world I want to live in.
  - dublinben 10y ago
    If you join your local Cryptoparty, you will likely find someone who will sign your public key for free. Check out cryptoparty.in to find the closest one, or some great resources for starting your own.
    - BostonEnginerd 10y ago
      There are a few parties running in the Boston area now. The cryptoparty.in/boston page hasn't been updated in a bit, but there is almost always an cryptoparty on the last Wednesday of the month at Parts and Crafts in Somerville.
- 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
  No need to deal with TheRealBob. Blockchains make CAs obsolete.
  - schoen 10y ago
    An interesting question is to what extent people will widely accept first-come-first-served solutions to naming. This is partly the case in DNS but not completely because the trademark system was imported into the DNS in an imperfect way, which means that some trademark holders have been able to use UDRP and/or litigation to seize domain names that relate to their trademarks. In blockchain-style naming, there's no UDRP, and if you can't get jurisdiction over the particular name-holder, you can't get much joy from litigation either. There's no registry or registrar to whom a court order could be issued. That has advantages and disadvantages from the end user's point of view: sometimes the legal system would have undermined uses of names that they wanted to make (as in the case of censorship by seizing or canceling a domain name, or transferring it as a punishment for violating an unrelated law), while other times it would have protected them from confusion and fraud.

by nxzero 10y ago

happyslobro 10y ago

It always starts underground. When it breaks out into the mainstream, it won't even be a movement anymore, it will just be life as usual. That green lock will be gone from the browser, along with any protocols that do not end in "s". The dozen or so communications apps on your phone will be encrypting everything, but not exposing any configuration. And, only one company will sign everyone's public key, because regular users just want to delegate everything to a familiar name. Then we will need another revolution, an underground network of public key signers. With names like 51GNpnk and TheRealBob. One of TheRealBobs will come smoke a joint with you in your parent's basement, and sign your key for $5, so that you can get into the Minecraft party on the weekend.

dijit 10y ago
This is the world I want to live in.
- dublinben 10y ago
  If you join your local Cryptoparty, you will likely find someone who will sign your public key for free. Check out cryptoparty.in to find the closest one, or some great resources for starting your own.
  - BostonEnginerd 10y ago
    There are a few parties running in the Boston area now. The cryptoparty.in/boston page hasn't been updated in a bit, but there is almost always an cryptoparty on the last Wednesday of the month at Parts and Crafts in Somerville.
20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
No need to deal with TheRealBob. Blockchains make CAs obsolete.
- schoen 10y ago
  An interesting question is to what extent people will widely accept first-come-first-served solutions to naming. This is partly the case in DNS but not completely because the trademark system was imported into the DNS in an imperfect way, which means that some trademark holders have been able to use UDRP and/or litigation to seize domain names that relate to their trademarks. In blockchain-style naming, there's no UDRP, and if you can't get jurisdiction over the particular name-holder, you can't get much joy from litigation either. There's no registry or registrar to whom a court order could be issued. That has advantages and disadvantages from the end user's point of view: sometimes the legal system would have undermined uses of names that they wanted to make (as in the case of censorship by seizing or canceling a domain name, or transferring it as a punishment for violating an unrelated law), while other times it would have protected them from confusion and fraud.