RT @zooko: It’s the 31st anniversary of the publication of “A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto” by Eric Hughes. It is a very relevant and important d…
Replying to @bitgeiniog, @BitcoinErrorLog and @bordalix
DID: BTCR was really the first DID method https://w3c-ccg.github.io/didm-btcr/ There is also a good podcast on it at https://rubric.cc/podcast/the-granddaddy-of-dids/
RT @phil_h: Avec @fredericmartinx, nous publions aujourd’hui sur le site d’@EthereumFr le plaidoyer de @ChristopherA en faveur de l’identit…
Replying to @ChristopherA
Foremembrance Day marks the day in 1943 that the Resistance in the Netherlands tried to destroy the identity registry archives in Amsterdam, to protect the populace from the occupying Nazis. [2/12] https://www.annefrank.org/en/timeline/128/the-resistance-attacks-the-population-register-of-amsterdam/
Next Wednesday, March 27 is #Foremembrance Day. Join me here for a Livestream just before the sun sets over Amsterdam (11am PT, 2pm ET, 7pm CET). I’ll be talking about the dangers of correlated identity, and some lessons from history. [1/11] https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1MnxnMLyEPBJO
Replying to @ChristopherA
The resistance was only somewhat successful. Though they set fires in the registry, 85% of the identity data was restored by the Dutch civil service. Most of the resistance members were then murdered by Nazis on July 2. [3/12]
Replying to @ChristopherA
Because of the Netherlands’ extensive compilation and correlation of data, 75% of the Jews in the country were killed during the Holocaust. [4/12] https://twitter.com/trbouma/status/1222863239744311296
Replying to @ChristopherA
The correlated data was enabled by a man named Jacobus L. Lentz, who wrote the book on Personal Identity, who saw it as a tool without seeing its dangers. It didn’t have to be that way! [5/12]
Replying to @ChristopherA
It wasn’t that way in France where a different identity architect, René Carmille, took a very different path. He purposefully sabotaged the census of the Jews while simultaneously compiling a listing of 800,000 French soldiers ready to rise up against the German occupation [6/12]
Replying to @ChristopherA
If you’d like to read about the topic right now, I written more in “Echoes from History”, an introduction to a full book on “Foremembrance” I am working on. [8/12] https://www.blockchaincommons.com/articles/echoes-history/
Replying to @ChristopherA
I’ll talk about these two men and their historical roles in personal identity in a 5-minute presentation on Wed, March 27, followed by a minute of silence at Amsterdam sunset (7:07p CEST) and an open discussion on how to make identity safer TODAY. [7/12] https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1MnxnMLyEPBJO
Replying to @ChristopherA
If you happen to be in the Netherlands next week, this plaque is just outside the Amsterdam Zoo’s Cafe at Plantage Kerklaan 36, 1018 CZ Amsterdam, Netherlands. I’d love to have some photos at sunset (7:07 CEST) of anyone gathered there. [11/12]
Replying to @ChristopherA
Another excellent resource on the subject of collecting data: “The Dark Side of Numbers: The Role of Population Data Systems in Human Rights Abuses” by @wseltzer and @margo_shehers [10/11] https://www.jstor.org/stable/40971467
Replying to @ChristopherA
👆I hope you can join for #Foremembrance: @silicondomme @joncallas @hackylawyER @katherineykwu @internetfreedom @EFF @AnnCavoukian @wseltzer0731 @mer__edith @angela_walch @lukOlejnik @karen_ec_levy @snowjake @shoshanazuboff @La__Cuen @WouterWelling @NachoAlamillo
Replying to @ChristopherA
The mission of @BlockchainComns is for an open, interoperable, secure & compassionate digital infrastructure to enable people to control their own digital destiny and to maintain their human dignity online. Support us at https://github.com/sponsors/BlockchainCommons [12/12]
RT @PrivacyMatters: https://t.co/nMULqX2AIo
RT @mer__edith: Great thread for those interested in why I’m a big fan of ethical sabotage in tech.
Tl;dr – the best way to preserve pri…
Replying to @mer__edith and @WebDevLaw
Arondeus led the sabotage of the archives that we are commemorating next Wednesday. I talk about quite a bit more about Arondeus, and other early LGTBQ+ support of the Jews in my book draft. But my main point is Lenz & Carmille both led identity systems, with different results.
RT @KuypersMarieke: @mer__edith Resistance member Frieda Belinfante was a part of the group that attacked the registry and one of the few t…
Replying to @mer__edith
We presented at IETF-Brisbane this week about being disappointed that RFCs on Privacy & Human Rights were only advice, not mandates, and needed updates. We also suggested that IETF needed a WH on data elision / selective disclosure. Answer was “not needed”.
Replying to @mer__edith
Here is our presentation to IETF that failed, the topic of whch maps to @mer__edith’s quote “Tl;dr – the best way to preserve privacy is not to collect data. The second best way is to destroy the data.”
https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Gordian-Developer-Community/tree/master/meetings/2024/03-18
Replying to @mer__edith
The specific problem requirements IETF internet-draft that we proposed is at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-appelcline-hashed-elision/
Replying to @mer__edith
We also having a working proof-of-concept with radical improvements to minimal disclosure best practices using basic hash-tree-based elision, with architecture that supports options for signature anti-correlation. IETF internet-draft at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mcnally-envelope/
RT @ChristopherA: @mer__edith We presented at IETF-Brisbane this week about being disappointed that RFCs on Privacy & Human Rights were onl…
RT @ChristopherA: @mer__edith Here is our presentation to IETF that failed, the topic of whch maps to @mer__edith’s quote “Tl;dr – the bes…
RT @ChristopherA: @mer__edith The specific problem requirements IETF internet-draft that we proposed is at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-appelcline-hashed-elision/
RT @ChristopherA: @mer__edith We also having a working proof-of-concept with radical improvements to minimal disclosure best practices usin…
RT @AaronvanW: The Genesis Book review by former DigiCash employee Jurjen Bos.
https://medium.com/@jnebos/i-thought-i-understood-bitcoin-until-now-07e064c4ba7a
RT @KimZetter: Newly discovered vuln in Apple M-series chips lets attackers extract secret keys from Macs. “The flaw—a side channel allowin…
This is why @BlockchainComns is so focused on multisig & threshold quorum choices for keys, recovery resilience. Also why interoperability is so important, as no keys are on one class of hardware. When there are no Single Points of Compromise (SPoC) or Failure (SPoF) no attack. https://twitter.com/KimZetter/status/1770869722760061195
Replying to @ChristopherA
If you are a wallet developer, here is more on the technologies multiple wallet vendors are beginning to deploy this year: https://developer.blockchaincommons.com/seedrecovery/
Replying to @ChristopherA
In the meantime, our current safest multisig scenario that works now is at https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/SmartCustody/blob/master/Docs/Scenario-Multisig.md
Replying to @ChristopherA
It takes over an hour and requires attention to detail, so is full of checklists. However, we have a strategy to make it easier using QR or NFC response & request. Here is a paper on how the process will be so much easier when wallet developers start using it:…
I’ll be streaming live on http://X.com tomorrow at 7pm CEST (sunset in Amsterdam, 1pm EDT, 11am PDT) on the 81st anniversary of the attempt by the WWII Dutch Resistance to destroy the identity records held by the Nazis. Join me for a moment of silence & discussion. https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/1770857165848244592
I’ve posted more specific details about the attempt, 81 years ago today, by the Dutch Resistance in WWII destroy the Civil Archives and population registry, which was led by the Amsterdam LGBT+ community to protect the Jews and other undesirables: https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/foremembrance-2024-echoes-from-wwii-history-about-identity-today-lgbt-connections.918503/ https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/1770857163323224477
Replying to @mer__edith and @WebDevLaw
Laura “Lau” Mazirel, an advocate of LGBT+ & Romani “Gypsy” rights, visited Willem Arondeus in prison not long before his execution. He had only one request to make of her: “tell the world that gays are no less courageous than anyone else.” https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/foremembrance-2024-echoes-from-wwii-history-about-identity-today-lgbt-connections.918503/
RT @ChristopherA: @mer__edith @WebDevLaw Laura “Lau” Mazirel, an advocate of LGBT+ & Romani “Gypsy” rights, visited Willem Arondeus in pris…
Join me now LIVE in #Foremembrance, to commemorate and offer a moment of silence on this 81st anniversary of the attempt by the WWII Dutch Resistance to destroy the identity records held by the Nazis. The future of digital identity lies in our hands. https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1MnxnMLyEPBJO
Replying to @ChristopherA
We will move to Zoom afterwards (~10m after the hour) at https://us02web.zoom.us/s/84797789485
We are in zoom live NOW, if you would like to talk about the #Foremembrance story, digital identity and human rights, etc. https://us02web.zoom.us/s/84797789485
A video (11m) of #Foremembrance and the moment-of-silence commemorating the 81st anniversary of the attempt by the WWII Dutch Resistance to destroy the identity records held by the Nazis, is now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9KuIlAg4wg
Replying to @ChristopherA
Original thread: https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/1770857165848244592
If this bill has legs it would be quite concerning. https://twitter.com/jess_miers/status/1772792624925303275
RT @AnomalRoil: @secparam presenting the (ambitious) goals they tackled with their zk-creds systems 🤯#realworldcrypto This is great for mov…
🔎 “The right is fighting to take control of these platforms, while liberals and some on the left are fighting to expand vectors of platform control, without thinking hard enough about who will wield this power and who is likely to get hurt.” — @mer__edith https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1773344682375852408
Replying to @ChristopherA
An unfortunate typo got into the slides and recording, which I also read aloud. It was René Carmille that hid the 100,000 cards of French Jews. Here is the corrected slide:
Replying to @ChristopherA
I’m still puzzling on how best to tell Carmille’s story, as some details have been lost, and there are still questions. Two links, and one book, in particular I have used as sources: https://daily.jstor.org/wwii-and-the-first-ethical-hacker/; https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/oa_monograph/chapter/70972; “A Quiet Hero” by Dwight Harshbarge
Cellular data used to correlate visitors to Epstein’s island demonstrates the double-edged sword of surveillance tech. While it can expose wrongdoing, it raises critical #RightToPrivacy concerns for everyday citizens. How do we balance the need for justice with #FreedomToAssemble… https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/1773304396400545947
Replying to @clayforsberg
As a personal example, my mother lived in St. Thomas, and was a professional sail boat captain taking day charters. On a regular basis, when the winds were from a particular direction, she would take her guests to the waters of close in to the lee side of his island to snorkel.…
RT @ekr____: Now up on the newsletter, a look at design choices for deploying post-quantum algorithms for TLS (mostly on the Web).
https:/…
Replying to @ChristopherA
The presentation will be by @jesseposner, Senior Blockchain Engineer at Block, who is working on the secp/ZKP FROST project [2/8] https://github.com/BlockstreamResearch/secp256k1-zkp/pull/138
Want to know more about FROST, the Schnorr signature scheme that enables threshold sigs and more? @BlockchainComns will have an online presentation this Wednesday, April 3rd at 10am PT. [1/8] https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Gordian-Developer-Community/blob/master/meetings/2024/04-03/frost-meeting.md
Replying to @ChristopherA
It also leverages VSS (Verifiable Secret Sharing), which is useful in other ways as it allows you to verify the existence of backup shares without the risks of reconstructing then. [5/8] https://developer.blockchaincommons.com/ckm/
Replying to @ChristopherA
FROST is particular powerful as it enables Distributed Key Generation (DKG), where a key never actually exists on a single computer! Instead, it exists in a kind of network “fog” that only exists when a quorum of participants are working tegether. [4/8]
Replying to @ChristopherA
FROST is a massive advance in cryptographic technology, in particular for Bitcoin as supports signature aggregation, where a multisig and a single sig look identical. [3/8] https://developer.blockchaincommons.com/frost/
Replying to @ChristopherA
Become a sponsor of @BlockchainComns to ensure our continued work in toward #SmartCustody for end-users and our support for digital-asset wallets developers. We need your ongoing help! [8/8] https://github.com/sponsors/BlockchainCommons
Replying to @ChristopherA
Sign up for our Gordian Developers list to receive announcements of all of our Bitcoin developer an digital-asset wallet developer focused events. [7/8] https://www.blockchaincommons.com/subscribe/
Replying to @ChristopherA
If you’re a wallet developer, or just interested in the future of Schnorr for Bitcoin, join us this Wednesday April 3rd at 10am PT (1pm ET, 7pm CET) for a presentation that explains all. [6/8] https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Gordian-Developer-Community/blob/master/meetings/2024/04-03/frost-meeting.md