Julian Assange: Cryptographic Call to Arms

Post by Egregore » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 11:37 AM UTC

hughw wrote: post #6

mtgx wrote: post #2

This is why I'm glad HTTP 2.0 intends to implement SPDY's always-on encryption. It probably won't be long until governments find a way around that, especially the US government, who can pretty easily gain access to companies like Google, Verisign, and even ICANN, but it would be a good first step in the right direction. Hopefully future steps like web crypto will help increase the security of people's conversations o…

Alway-on encryption is necessary but not sufficient. As long as Facebook or Google have the decrypted information, you are still subject to the transnational dystopia. The other day I found this fellow's idea for a peer-to-peer social network service: http://code.google.com/p/peer-book/ "Your data is stored in a distributed fashion, across the network, so that even when you turn off your instance of PeerBook, your fr…

Post by jalada » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 11:56 AM UTC

elux wrote: post #202

skrebbel wrote: post #159

Strong cryptography can resist an unlimited application of violence. No amount of coercive force will ever solve a math problem. Not entirely false, but http://xkcd.com/538/

Long before Wikileaks, Assange worked on a project called "Rubberhose". (A hidden encrypted filesystem designed to offer protection against cryptanalysis by torture.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose_(file_system) Wired in 2008: "Among other achievements, he [Assange] co-invented Rubberhose deniable encryption, which would let a dissident being tortured…

Post by amazingman » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 12:06 PM UTC

gasull wrote: post #153

yason wrote: post #144

In maybe five to ten years, the internet will effectively split in two. There will be major, commercial service providers such as Facebook-type social media hubs, major news sites but there will also be an invisible internet that is everything internet used to be, and in addition to that encrypted, anonymous, and untraceable. How it shows most prominently at the moment is file sharing. Setting the endless copyright d…

> there will be a major "bazaar" going on underground I thought most people here had heard of The Silk Road onion service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_%28marketplace%29 > An online bank could very well operate in the anonymous network because the traffic is already cryptographically signed, and users can enjoy strong authentication if they wish to or remain a pair of anonymous public/private keys. Or you…

Post by amazingman » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 12:09 PM UTC

lkozma wrote: post #179

yason wrote: post #144

In maybe five to ten years, the internet will effectively split in two. There will be major, commercial service providers such as Facebook-type social media hubs, major news sites but there will also be an invisible internet that is everything internet used to be, and in addition to that encrypted, anonymous, and untraceable. How it shows most prominently at the moment is file sharing. Setting the endless copyright d…

I found your comment more insightful than the article.

Post by coenhyde » Mon, Dec 03, 2012, 12:17 PM UTC

lucian1900 wrote: post #192

chii wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> When the masses go for it, the capacity and availability of invisible darknets will raise in orders of magnitude. this is predicated on the assumption that providers are not strangled by their balls by the authorities (who is in turn strangled by the balls by lobbiests/companies/vested interests). If you could run your own routes with private equipment (such as a mesh like wireless network?), instead of having to s…

Will ISPs be forced to disallow all encrypted traffic? That would be disastrous. It's already possible to connect to a website over https (with a self-signed cert you've obtained through a second channel) and be pretty much certain no one is snooping. The target you're connecting to doesn't have to be obvious either.