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could be interesting if the process involved publishing a txn to the bitcoin blockchain. that is, every unlock were made publicly and immutably visible thus pu
by a-dub 8y ago
could be interesting if the process involved publishing a txn to the bitcoin blockchain. that is, every unlock were made publicly and immutably visible thus putting the government in the hot seat to later justify all uses of the facility.
- baroffoos 8y agoThat does literally nothing because the government can just say "Push an update to this device to not do that" which is what the whole law is about.
- a-dub 8y agothe idea is that if there's a late auditable solution, then today's methods of doing it on the down low become distasteful. they're gonna do it regardless, but the politicians may agree to forcing them down a process that is publicly auditable in the long run... basically if late auditability makes it possible for them to do their jobs, then the basis for today's sketchy down low approach is ameliorated.
- dane-pgp 8y agoRight, this is basically Binary Transparency, with the same sort of social mechanisms in place as Certificate Transparency has for dealing with misbehaving CAs. The idea of storing release hashes (or public keys) in a distributed, permissionless, append-only log actually makes a lot of sense, and there are several serious proposals for how to do this, such as EthIKS: http://www.jbonneau.com/doc/B16b-BITCOIN-ethiks.pdf http://www.jbonneau.com/doc/B16b-BITCOIN-ethiks.pdf and Contour: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.08427.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.08427.pdf