Cryptography opens a portal to a whole new way to live. From Paul Rosenberg at freemansperspective.com:
I am no fan of violent revolution, yet I have to admit that John Kennedy had a point when he said, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” The forces that drive revolutions push themselves to the surface one way or another. If they can find a peaceful path, they have a chance to transform the world slowly and beneficially. If they are repressed, violence occurs sooner or later.
Entrenched regimes, however, all but never give up power willingly. It makes no difference whether the regime is a monarchy, democracy, theocracy, republic or whatever. Once entrenched, power-holders fight to the last gasp. This is not a function of the system; it is a function of power itself, and the humans who become addicted to it. And so we’ve seen a long succession of violent revolutions.
The good news of our time – the transformative news of our time – is this: Cryptography displaces violence. However much cryptography we use, change will require that much less violence. And there is a very good reason for this: Cryptography is impervious to weapons.
Cryptography, after all, boils down to math, and you can’t put a bullet through a math problem. Well-applied cryptography, then, is immune to the usual applications of power. And so, whatever we cloak in cryptography can push through barriers erected by old, grasping regimes.
A Goring riff about types of regimes and a revolutionary throwing a bouquet of flowers, me likey!
Messages can’t be intercepted if they aren’t sent, can they?
Erwin Rommel
No need to send, I have to travel to Pineland to discuss I read the news today oh boy with a brother from another mother and it usually boosts our morale and then the wymyns come in with the Swifty/Cena report.
(sad trombone)
‘Crypto’ means hidden in old greek. Can anyone trust something hidden? Mathematics is abstract. Abstract means to ignore anything that isn’t number like. So to abstract means to ignore what is human and consider what is lever -like! Cryptography is making things obscure by substitution of signs.
Obfuscation + deliberate abstraction is war of man upon man.
”War is the father of all things” Heraclitus
Let’s discus what the words mean first and will see each and everyone’s intentions.
But maybe there are those who don’t want to clarify the meanings of the words.