The context of this article involves the use of secret sharing for confidential customer records... so I think that's pretty relevant. > The governments are al

The context of this article involves the use of secret sharing for confidential customer records... so I think that's pretty relevant. > The governments are all moving to gradually ban end-to-end encryption, as they worry about “terrorism” etc. In a few countries like the UK where the residents are subjects and don't have civil rights. > But no one is moving to ban cryptographic signatures. Most (perhaps all) signature schemes can also be used to conceal data. > Smart contracts can help ensure the immutability of code and I don’t know of any other mechanism that’s widely deployed today that can guarantee the code and data won’t be tampered with. I'm remained of "Wakalixes makes it go." from "Surely, You are Joking, Mr Feynman". It's not at all clear to me that there is some code immutability crisis, and I don't see the relevance of 'Smart contracts' to the integrity of code that isn't answered by tools like cryptographic hashes or an ordinary digital signature, -- stuff we've been using for decades. The blockchain woo is a bit part of what what causes a lot of the public to regard the entire space as a bunch of grifters.