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by cypher_ 8y ago
This is the exact problem solved by onion-routing. The first node is called "Guard" for a reason, it can directly monitor all incoming connection to the network, but if onion-routing is used and the system is properly designed, it
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by cypher_ 8y ago
> You already have to operate as if an exit node could be bad, it's not that different. Tor's anonymity is guaranteed by its probability and temporary nature of exit nodes. Every Tor client uses the same algorithm to select an
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by cypher_ 8y ago
> Buy some Bitcoin, and then mix two or three times. Simply exchange them to Monero. If you want, mix them, but only a single pass is needed. A mixer is a trusted 3rd-party, which introduces serious counterparty risk, and vulnerable t
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by cypher_ 8y ago
Thanks again! Please mail to https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=0xafb8546e8c884a41ae0c... if you are going to send me something. ;-)
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by cypher_ 8y ago
Do you have related writings or presentations on your hands? If so, could you please publish them online? I'd love to see some details of your critique, especially, what is the problem of Vanguardism?
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by cypher_ 8y ago
Insightful comment, thank you! I would like further to say, as I said in another comment, Cyphernomicon is one of the most valuable document worth to read, an amazing collecting of farseeing ideas. The widespread of data breach, privacy-inv
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by cypher_ 8y ago
I think the major mistakes of the early Cypherpunks include the following. If we want to go forward, these problems must be solved. (a) informal approach to cryptography, the entire applied cryptography from late 1990s to the early 2000s su
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by cypher_ 8y ago
Since post-Snowden, the Cypherpunk Movement somehow became active again, but many are not aware of the history of Cypherpunk. I recommend everyone who is interested in cryptography, privacy and Cypherpunk to read A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto
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by cypher_ 8y ago
His paper is available at: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1109/IRPS.1978.362815 A New Physical Mechanism for Soft Errors in Dynamic Memories
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by cypher_ 8y ago
Cypherpunks, were also the root of many, if not all, security and cryptography tools and projects used by everyone today. You name it, it’s probably has a cypherpunk personally involved, or derived from a cypherpunk prototypes, or at least
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by cypher_ 8y ago
The end of an age. RIP, Tim. Cypherpunk Movement, leaded by Tim May is an established ideology and movement since the late 80s. At the time, they were the most prominent supporters of individual privacy and digital liberty. It was them, who