Replying to @OlUkolova
You should have received an email from Eventbrite. I’ll send You URL via DM.
Today, June 1, Blockchain Commons @BlockchainComns held our first Silicon Salon, to discuss the future of semiconductor design for cryptography [1/8] https://www.siliconsalon.info/
We began with presentations from semiconductor manufacturers and wallet manufacturers to help to lay the foundation for our discussion. [4/8] https://www.siliconsalon.info/presentations/
The goal of the salon was to bring together people from the crypto community with semiconductor manufacturers who are interested in better supporting modern cryptography. We wanted to facilitate the sharing of use cases, requirements and other needs. [3/8]
As an attendee said: “Crypto wallets [are] using semiconductors that are largely designed … for other purposes. Look at a typical MCU in a wallet, you probably have a hundred such MCUs in your house. They were designed for those purposes, not for cryptocurrency.” [2/8]
Many thanks to our sustaining sponsors who made our hosting of this event possible. If you’d like to support more of this type of work, you can do so on our GitHub Sponsorship page. [8/8] https://github.com/sponsors/BlockchainCommons
Thanks to everyone who presented and everyone who attended! Since the goal was to join everyone’s voices together and kick off a conversation, you’re the ones who made the Silicon Salon work! [7/8]
We’re continuing those discussion online at GitHub discussions. Please join us to have your say! [6/8] https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Airgapped-Wallet-Community/discussions/categories/silicon-salon
We then held discussions on a variety of topics, including pain points, architectures, bootloaders, firmware, supply-chain issues, cryptographic primitives, protocols, acceleration, threats, countermeasures, and the ecosystem. [5/8] https://www.siliconsalon.info/#discussions
RT @kanzure: It’s great to see chip makers and hardware wallets finally planning together. I personally think Libre-SOC stole the show too-…
I believe that individuals ought to be able to choose to take risks, to be “unsafe”. But that decision should be consensual & well informed, with minimizing information asymmetry, cognitive bias/dark patterns, and without coercion. Those who choose to do this change the world.…
I am not sure I agree with the language, but I do agree about the sentiment. The term “security” is too often focused on financial harm, threats to property, and thus lends itself to business. Whereas the problem for individuals is larger. Safety is not quite it. Anti-coercion?… https://twitter.com/LALeVasseur/status/1533146373998071808
I often hear “CEOs & billionaires have privacy rights too”. True, but they also have responsibilities. If they want to be passive (say Jackie Onassis) they deserve that privacy. But if they want to be active, they loose some privacy, need to accept some risks, and be responsible.
For instance, if I choose to accept leadership in a group, I should forego certain kinds of privacy that others in my group need to have. I have to justify my decisions. To be sometime unsafe. A safe world only benefits the status quo, which is not sustainable long-term. …
Replying to @SeedSigner and @EnteroPositivo
I’ve let the interns interested in adding SSKR export via QR, UR crypto-requests, and UR-based PSBTs know about the emulator. They have another week to chose their summer projects.
RT @kallewoof: A project to create a stand-alone BIP-322 CLI app headed by @BlockchainComns / @ChristopherA has been initiated, I am told:…
IANAL, but I am looking at the new @SenLummis / @SenGillibrand Responsible Financial Innovation Act from a technology perspective. So far I like the specific acknowledgement of “collaborative custody or multisignature arrangements” needing modernization. https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Lummis-Gillibrand%20Responsible%20Financial%20Innovation%20Act%20%5bFinal%5d.pdf
Replying to @pfrazee
Pleased that you are considering CBOR. We have moved almost exclusively to it with our UR work for wallet & key interoperability standards.
Replying to @VitalikButerin
My take on this is that you consent to accountability when you accept power, whether that is doctor to patient, CPA to client, CEO to stakeholders, or civil service to citizens, or heads of state to a nation.
RT @ChristopherA: @VitalikButerin My take on this is that you consent to accountability when you accept power, whether that is doctor to pa…
Replying to @VitalikButerin
A related thread: https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/1533163170151292928
RT @namcios: 1/ Jack Dorsey’s @TBD54566975 unit has just announced it is building “Web5”.
This new decentralized web leverages #Bitcoin to…
RT @bitgeiniog: Congratulations @csuwildcat, @ChristopherA and the DIF crew.
I’ve been following your progress for over 4 years, I knew…
RT @namcios: Privacy is important in bitcoin because it is the pillar of a successful creation of digital cash, where only the parties invo…
Intersection of two of my worlds today in @xkcd’s #d65539 as I wrap a week doing cryptographic security, then relaxing this weekend designing a cooperative #TTRPG for @DyversHands. /ht @WolfMcNally https://xkcd.com/2626
If this moves forward, WRDAs could offer clarity to creators, consumers, businesses, and investors by codifying protections and expectations of digital assets, under Wyoming digital asset laws leveraging their new Chancery Court. [4/6]
WRDA is a proposed framework to clarify bailment & demonstrate perfection under the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) for digital assets, but it could also offer useful certifications for other assets like NFTs, IP, trademarks, real property, etc. [3/6]
My testimony before them today includes some thoughts on a new idea — a new concept I call a “Wyoming Registered Digital Asset”, or WRDA. [2/6]
I am speaking later this afternoon before the Wyoming Select Committee on Blockchain, Financial Technology and Digital Innovation Tech about digital assets. Today’s livestream livestream has begun. [1/6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnvoPd08wVs
Since many states (and some nations) are looking to the Wyoming legislation for models to use with digital assets, I’m hopeful that @BlockchainComns work before the Select Committee will ultimately affect laws worldwide. [6/6] /cc @rothfuss @JaredSOlsen @CaitlinLong_ @SenLummis
This may be too inside-baseball for some, but the ultimate goal is to ensure that digital assets can have all the advantages and all the security of physical assets This is a crucial step forward. Thanks to Wyoming for letting me testify on this topic! [5/6]
The session on Wyoming stable coins ran rather late, so my item on Wyoming Registered Digital Assets #WRDA was last. My portion begins at 3h15m16s (but if you want the digital asset whole session start at 3h42:52) https://youtu.be/gnvoPd08wVs?t=14356
RT @ChristopherA: The session on Wyoming stable coins ran rather late, so my item on Wyoming Registered Digital Assets #WRDA was last. My p…
My discussions on e-residency will be included in today’s livestream from the Select Committee on Blockchain, Financial Technology and Digital Innovation Tech for the #Wyoming Legislature. [1/6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TjD7PbeSP0
By leveraging W3C standards, supporting UCC filings, and moving forward with a new #WRDA offering for Wyoming Registered Digital Assets, Wyoming can do even better than Estonia! [4/6] https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/1536805286886772736?s=20&t=GojYtnKx6aLk1bUUwktPYA
I am advocating that Wyoming offer its own e-residency program so that people can take advantage of its innovative laws regarding digital assets, corporate records, and DAOs. My letter: https://wyoleg.gov/InterimCommittee/2022/S19-2022061413-02DigitalIdentityPrivacyeResidencyandPrivateKeyDisclosure.pdf presentation: https://wyoleg.gov/InterimCommittee/2022/S19-2022061413-03WyomingeResidencySlides.pdf [3/6]
People may know the concept of e-residency from Estonia’s innovative idea to giving people access to the EU business environment. [2/6] https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/e-residency/
Digital assets are the future, and Wyoming is embracing that future. E-residency is the way to make their innovative legislation available to everyone. [6/6] /cc @rothfuss @JaredSOlsen @CaitlinLong_ @SenLummis
One of this year’s @BlockchainComns interns, Collin Kinniry @ckinn12, will be offering further testimony on e-residency. [5/6] https://wyoleg.gov/InterimCommittee/2022/S19-2022061413-04CollinKinniry_WYTestimony.pdf
The problem is that currently private key disclosure can be forced in the early stages of a legal process, resulting in threats of false witness or irrevocable asset transfers, for which the private key holder has no legal recourse.[2/9]
On today’s livestream at the #Wyoming Legislative Select Committee on Blockchain, Financial Technology and Digital Innovation Tech, I’m also testifying about private key disclosure. [1/9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TjD7PbeSP0
A private key can be someone’s digital signature or their verification of identity. Having that key compromised by a malicious actor can cause egregious harm. As a technologist, I know of no safe ways to transfer private keys. So we need better protection for private keys! [5/9]
Testimony from former Mary Beth Buchannan, former U.S. Attorney for W. Dist. PA is in agreement “Honestly, I would be very concerned about turning over a private key to a court.” [4/9] https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/wyoming-select-committee/private-key-disclosure-buchanan/
This is made worse by the fact that courts do not currently have the technical and security infrastructure to reasonably protect a keyholder’s rights and ensure that the private key remains private! [3/9]
My written testimony covers not just this Private Key Disclosure law, but also about of data privacy and e-residency, the other topics I will discuss in today’s session. [7/9] https://wyoleg.gov/InterimCommittee/2022/S19-2022061413-02DigitalIdentityPrivacyeResidencyandPrivateKeyDisclosure.pdf
Thus I have been trying to get special protection for private keys since I first proposed the concept in 2019 #KeysAreNotAssets. Wyoming is currently considering this legislation to do exactly that, and so I strongly support it! [6/9]
👆🏼/cc @rothfuss @JaredSOlsen @CaitlinLong_ @SenLummis
If you are interested in helping financially supporting
@BlockchainComns to continue advocacy on this Wyoming #KeysAreNotAssets Bill and our other digital rights advocacy efforts around the world, become a monthly sponsor at https://github.com/sponsors/blockchaincommons
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My thanks to interns at Blockchain Commons, Collin Kinniry @ckinn12, a graduate from Wabash entering law school in the fall, and Sunint Bindra @SunintB, a student at Dartmouth studying computer science & economics, for working with me on my testimony yesterday & today. [8/9]
The Q&A on e-Residency pushed the lifestream into the afternoon, where we will be talking shortly about the Private Key Disclosure law soon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61c3sYGqO-E
The e-Residency topic continued into the afternoon, which has a new livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61c3sYGqO-E (We also will be talking shortly about the Private Key Disclosure law soon)
RT @ChristopherA: The e-Residency topic continued into the afternoon, which has a new livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61c3sYGqO-E (We also wil…
RT @ChristopherA: The Q&A on e-Residency pushed the lifestream into the afternoon, where we will be talking shortly about the Private Key D…
The video archive of the session about Private Key Disclosure bill #KeysAreNotAssets is now available, starting at the 17m49s mark (which should work properly from this link): https://youtu.be/61c3sYGqO-E?t=1061
RT @ChristopherA: The problem is that currently private key disclosure can be forced in the early stages of a legal process, resulting in t…
Advance readings also share your specific knowledge, expertise, and experience. Rebooting the Web of Trust is all about bringing together people to collaborate on the next generation of decentralized systems, for our mutual benefit. Advance readings get the ball rolling. [4/9]
Advance readings are important because they help you to influence what will be discussed (and ultimately designed and workshopped) at the conference: they allow you to highlight topics that you think are important. [3/9]
Advance readings do give you a healthy discount for a ticket to RWOT. But, that’s because we want to encourage them, as they’re crucial to our process. They also do a lot more! [2/9]
Rebooting the Web of Trust is returning this fall in the Hague, and we’re now accepting signups and advance readings for our design workshop. [1/9] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-xi-2022-the-hague-tickets-347605426187 https://twitter.com/RWOTEvents/status/1533614767801151488
Finally, I’ll also be holding three “Open Office Hours” for attendees ahead of the workshop to talk about topic paper development. The first is next week, on June 23 at 9am PDT using Zoom. Save the date on your calendar! [7/9] https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83914783118?pwd=aGFuREY1VDFPWmcreldIc0RsYUdzZz09
You can also look at the advance readings from RWOT Buenos Aires (which was unfortunately canceled due to the pandemic). [6/9] https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot10-buenosaires/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/README.md
So what makes a good advance reading? Specific problems, specific critiques, and specific solutions briefly described. Take a look at our advance-reading primer. [5/9] https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot11-the-hague/blob/master/advance-readings/advance-reading-primer.md
We hope to see you this September in the Hague, for our first design workshop since the beginning of the pandemic! [9/9] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-xi-2022-the-hague-tickets-347605426187
What new ideas can you introduce to the workshop? What expertise can you share? What problems can you present? We invite you to answer these questions in your advance reading! [8/9]
I really like this analogy. Much easier than explaining elliptic curves. https://twitter.com/SovereignCarel/status/1048428247342624768
RT @SarahJamieLewis: Canada’s new proposed privacy law:
- “De-identified” data doesn’t actually mean de-identified.
- Organizations are ex…
Last week @BlockchainComns intern @ckinn12 and I shared testimony about the opportunities should #Wyoming start a eResidency program for the state, in particular easing corporate registration but there are many other opportunities including #WRDA and more. https://twitter.com/WellmanAlex/status/1537542914796027905
RT @DecentralizedID: The term Self-Sovereign Identity (#SSI) was only coined in 2016 by @ChristopherA, but the concepts that undepin it go…
RT @ValidatedID: When we access our social media accounts or make an online purchase, most of the time we have no control over what happens…
I will be holding #RWOT open office hours tomorrow at 9am PDT (6pm CEST) on Zoom, to brainstorm with you the #DecentralizedIdentity topics that we’d to see. prepare for, and collaborate on before the #RWOT11 F2F in The Hague on September 26th-30th. https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/1537471414873120770
This looks interesting. Effectively this means there is a FROST-like quorum mechanism not only for Schnorr, but also Bitcoin legacy’s (and Ethereum’s) Elgamal ECDSA. This might allow for offline multisig wallets even for the Ethereum which does not have multisig crypto on chain. https://twitter.com/cronokirby/status/1539824752768024577
Replying to @cronokirby
I’m intrigued with the opportunity to do a secp256k1 ECDA offline quorum signing, as that could address some single point of failure problems in Ethereum. This is a source of many #SmartCustody threats it is been difficult to address.
Replying to @cronokirby
A question, have you looked at ROAST? It adds to FROST the ability to sign a minority quorum even if there is a malicious majority (say a 4:9 where 5 want to block signing). Is this a property that your GRC can support?
Replying to @cronokirby
I don’t quite understand why Elgamal can be one round?
We continue to add more cooperative game case studies that didn’t make it into our book to our blog… https://twitter.com/MeeplesTogether/status/1540138566004514816
Replying to @cronokirby
Is a signature compatible with ECDSA possible with your technique? I know once generated, unlike Schnorr, and ECDSA signature can’t be aggregated, but if this is possible it would be extremely useful.
Replying to @AnastasiaU
We want to puzzle out more on how you know when you’ve circled around your basic use cases to if you’ve covered the territory enough to pick a focal use case. Take a look at DID Use Cases https://www.w3.org/TR/did-use-cases/
RT @allisondman: I loved this one! Thank you, @ChristopherA, @brianbehlendorf, and Alan Karp for bringing us up to speed on the state of th…