#Cryptographic

Most of the discussions about social media power miss the critical distinction: between the platform and the graph. The reason we're in this mess is that there is no separation
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A rant about #trust following the terrific discussions at #IDPolicyForum yesterday and today. #digitalidentity THREAD ... 1/9 "Trust" of course is talked of everywhere. In #IDPolicyForum, a speaker bounced around
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While I strongly agree with the problems associated with Bitcoin's energy use, at the same time I'm wondering what the numbers are for traditional finance and their downstream effects.Compare single
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It's becoming increasingly clear to me that issues of identity are the main ground of disagreement between many in the crypto community and @RadxChange.Thread: First of all, by identity, I
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1/ #Chainlink is extending its reach is in the blockchain gaming industry, in which the project's price feeds and randomization tech are starting to gain traction and show their potential.
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I want a widely adopted decentralized identity standard to push user identities down the stack to make room for innovation on top. Thread: Social networking evolved as an emergent property
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1/ Research has shown that credit expansion by banks in emerging markets may be significantly constrained by the inability of the banks to reduce the liquidity risk associated with nonsecuritised
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I agree with @monsterhunter45 that we're not doing the level of auditing on elections that we do routinely for other things. But he's leaving out the main reason: anonymity.https://twitter.com/monsterhunter45/status/1346262326832373
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As much as I love the Penrose tiling and long-range order (I used to do glass research!), this seems like a terrible idea1. Diverge correlation times/lengths means time to verify
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Random Saturday morning thought: Naive HKDF-AES-CTR-HMAC-SHA256 is not a committing AEAD scheme.(Thread) First, what is a committing AEAD? Getting a valid ciphertext in any AEAD scheme famously proves that the
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It's not everyday that I get tripped up by a phishing email, but even after 20+ years in the industry, I do find myself caught off guard on occasion. Today,
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1 ::: New kind of organisations are emerging from historic waves of cryptographic innovation. Let’s call them hydras. 2 ::: Hydras move with permissionless innovation and coordinate with code. Their
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The deeper point is that India doesn’t need to look up to Harvard. Indians are CEOs of trillion dollar companies, soon-to-be VPs, and of course (real) professors at Harvard.We can
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Been posting a lot about #bitcoin lately, but I’m going to begin to wind that down. There are many voices more qualified than mine. However, I said I would
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I'm reluctant to give this specious claim more oxygen, but it's important to understand that this isn't a serious threat. Blank mail-in forms aren't particularly security sensitive. They are authenticated
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What we have learned so far from reading the Dominion Voting System manual: 1. Votes can theoretically be ignored for individuals if a straight ticket vote is selected. This setting
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