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hash over the object's content. This proof should hold even if the > secret key was lost or published. > The drogulus uses public key cryptography (RSA) for signing digital assets. >> >> An item stored in the DHT is a collection of named fields /...\ creator for the key. * created_with >> - the version of the drogulus the creator used to generate the >> item. * public_key - the creator's public key. * key - the >> SHA-512 value of the compound key (based upon the public_key and >> name fields /...\ assert provenance: creator, witness, time etc. and > hash these together with the hash of the actual value. > So the creator (via their public key) and time of creation are all constituent in creating the hash. > Now if you take this hash as canonical identifier for the object

given by the creator for the key. > * created_with - the version of the drogulus the creator used to > generate the item. > * public_key - the creator's public key. > * key - the SHA-512 value of the compound key (based upon the public_key > and name fields /...\ correct to understand that the "key" field serves this purpose? I'm a bit concerned about the inclusion of some public_key here. This identifier should IMHO only cover non-repudiable, public (or semi-public) meta data. No private data an nothing one would ever want to change /...\ public_key field is used to validate the signature value. If this is > OK then the compound SHA-512 key is checked using the obviously valid > public_key and name fields. > > This ensures both the provenance of the data and that it hasn't been

list of the intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO. http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/en/RL/idea-and-practice-of-organizing-shared-interests-in-cooperatives-01200 ) In the beginning television in Germany was organised under public law, controlled by a board which consist of members from "relevant social groups". Television in that time had a public mission. With the advent of private television this system /...\ niche and people started to degenerate. What I want to say is. There are means to control infrastructure a. collectively b. by a public board so that the infrastructure is neither controlled by the state nor by corporations. Especially b. was and is criticized in Germany by special interest groups /...\ that want to privatize the entire public sector. Their success is undeniable. Germany today is nearly completely private property. I think that this is the front line. We have to fight back private interest in the net. And because this is contrary to the individualised ethos of most western developers

meaningful name given by the creator for the key. * created_with - the version of the drogulus the creator used to generate the item. * public_key - the creator's public key. * key - the SHA-512 value of the compound key (based upon the public_key and name fields) used /...\ actual key on the distributed hash table. * signature - a cryptographic signature generated using the creator's private key with the fields described above. The public_key field is used to validate the signature value. If this is OK then the compound SHA-512 key is checked using the obviously valid /...\ public_key and name fields. This ensures both the provenance of the data and that it hasn't been tampered with. Any items that don't pass the cryptographic checks are ignored and nodes that propagate them are punished by being blocked. It also confirms that the generated

anonymous |    known<br> --------------------------------------------------------<br> public    |         O          |        O<br> --------------------------------------------------------<br> private /...\ analogy would be the difference between your house and the public square. And talking to many or one person. <br> <br> Corporations want everything to act like one system because they need control. This is obviously stupid. <br> <br> <a href /...\ falls on the private/known mode of communication, and I am not attempting to make it anything else.  ZeroTier One can act as public or private and it makes sense to me why he chose some central points to handle the public case. Because to handle the public case

indeed a unique identifier for the item. Great! >> I'm a bit concerned about the inclusion of some public_key here. >> This identifier should IMHO only cover non-repudiable, public (or >> semi-public) meta data. No private data an nothing one would ever /...\ want to change. >> > I'm not sure I understand you completely. The public key is required > in order for third parties to validate the signature (created with the > associated private key). May I ask: why does it have to be that way? Experience teaches that

distribution problem, which is an authentication problem. You have some name or other identity and you need a trustworthy method of obtaining the corresponding public key. The second problem is the communication problem, which is a reliability/availability problem. You have some public key and you want to make a [more /...\ distribution has the narrower solution. If you're The New York Times or CBS then you can e.g. print the QR code of your public key fingerprint on the back page of every issue. A reader who picks up an issue from a random news stand can have good confidence

WebRTC system, and I've basically made the same tradeoffs. You need a central coordinator for WebRTC's signalling, so I'm running a public one, and then the server can be downloaded and self-administered for the super hard-core. I agree physical decentralization isn't important enough /...\ both an open source / free component and a commercial component. ZeroTier One supports the creation of arbitrary distributed LANs. There will be a few public wide-open ones that will be free for unlimited use, but you can also create private distributed LANs. I plan to charge users to create /...\ wouldn't go anywhere. This is why one of my goals with this project is to make p2p lateral communication easy on public virtual LANs. The fact that peers use a set of centralized servers to find each other is IMHO secondary... making lateral communication easy enables people to easily

WebRTC system, and I've basically made the same tradeoffs. You need a central coordinator for WebRTC's signalling, so I'm running a public one, and then the server can be downloaded and self-administered for the super hard-core. I agree physical decentralization isn't important enough /...\ both an open source / free component and a commercial component. ZeroTier One supports the creation of arbitrary distributed LANs. There will be a few public wide-open ones that will be free for unlimited use, but you can also create private distributed LANs. I plan to charge users to create /...\ wouldn't go anywhere. This is why one of my goals with this project is to make p2p lateral communication easy on public virtual LANs. The fact that peers use a set of centralized servers to find each other is IMHO secondary... making lateral communication easy enables people to easily

WebRTC system, and I've basically made the same tradeoffs. You need a central coordinator for WebRTC's signalling, so I'm running a public one, and then the server can be downloaded and self-administered for the super hard-core. I agree physical decentralization isn't important enough /...\ both an open source / free component and a commercial component. ZeroTier One supports the creation of arbitrary distributed LANs. There will be a few public wide-open ones that will be free for unlimited use, but you can also create private distributed LANs. I plan to charge users to create /...\ wouldn't go anywhere. This is why one of my goals with this project is to make p2p lateral communication easy on public virtual LANs. The fact that peers use a set of centralized servers to find each other is IMHO secondary... making lateral communication easy enables people to easily

knowledge and culture, on par with scientific knowledge. The arts show that you can pay for a work and make it available to the public without further fee. Artists paid for their work don't complain that they don't get a fee for each visitor. Second-hand bookstore /...\ illegal. Public libraries either. "Intellectual property" is a confusing legal construct that covers anything from authorship rights to patent laws. It would be akin to say that a fence, a kitchen, and a book belong to the same "physical property". RT2>I guess I forgot /...\ that is enforced. That material-possession-like trait is the kind of ownership Hiveware wishes to contribute to. Furthermore, my technology is already public. Anyone can get instructions on how to write a cooperative engine like Hiveware if they wish. It's all online. RT2> I understand perfectly

WebRTC system, and I've basically made the same tradeoffs. You need a central coordinator for WebRTC's signalling, so I'm running a public one, and then the server can be downloaded and self-administered for the super hard-core. I agree physical decentralization isn't important enough /...\ both an open source / free component and a commercial component. ZeroTier One supports the creation of arbitrary distributed LANs. There will be a few public wide-open ones that will be free for unlimited use, but you can also create private distributed LANs. I plan to charge users to create /...\ wouldn't go anywhere. This is why one of my goals with this project is to make p2p lateral communication easy on public virtual LANs. The fact that peers use a set of centralized servers to find each other is IMHO secondary... making lateral communication easy enables people to easily

WebRTC system, and I've basically made the same tradeoffs. You need a central coordinator for WebRTC's signalling, so I'm running a public one, and then the server can be downloaded and self-administered for the super hard-core. I agree physical decentralization isn't important enough /...\ both an open source / free component and a commercial component. ZeroTier One supports the creation of arbitrary distributed LANs. There will be a few public wide-open ones that will be free for unlimited use, but you can also create private distributed LANs. I plan to charge users to create /...\ wouldn't go anywhere. This is why one of my goals with this project is to make p2p lateral communication easy on public virtual LANs. The fact that peers use a set of centralized servers to find each other is IMHO secondary... making lateral communication easy enables people to easily

place. Message&message is another interesting topic. We have two: http://askemos.org/index.html?_v=search&_id=1302 > The id is just the hash > of the public key used to sign the messages in a feed. A feed may not > be signed by mutliple keys /...\ ball.askemos.org/A876f1fe6998ca9d43f2e66c11a3f0d4a >>> that is, this is one wallet of it. You want to log in using "public" to >>> find the actual thing. It's controlled by a single (though having >>> 80kLOC large) source file: >>> http://ball.askemos.org

project. cheers, Benjamin. -- Benjamin Heitmann, BSc, MSc PhD Researcher Unit for Information Mining and Retrieval (UIMR) Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) NUI Galway, Ireland publications and slides: http://www.deri.ie/about/team/member/benjamin_heitmann/ http://www.slideshare.net/metaman/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Benjamin_Heitmann/ public PGP key available at: http://keys.gnupg.net/ -- konklone.com | @konklone

Researcher > Unit for Information Mining and Retrieval (UIMR) > Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) > NUI Galway, Ireland > > publications and slides: > http://www.deri.ie/about/team/member/benjamin_heitmann/ > http://www.slideshare.net/metaman/ > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Benjamin_Heitmann/ > > public PGP key available at: http://keys.gnupg.net/ > - -- Do *you* have

both an open source / free component and a commercial component. ZeroTier One supports the creation of arbitrary distributed LANs. There will be a few public wide-open ones that will be free for unlimited use, but you can also create private distributed LANs. I plan to charge users to create /...\ wouldn't go anywhere. This is why one of my goals with this project is to make p2p lateral communication easy on public virtual LANs. The fact that peers use a set of centralized servers to find each other is IMHO secondary... making lateral communication easy enables people to easily

friends). (And yes: it delivers it's own website from those SoCs.) Downsides: the fuse client is not stable enough to be released publicly and WebDAV is no longer widely supported on client sides. While the whole thing should itself be able to run on Android, nobody had the resources /...\ volunteered to help. >> >> One > of my main interests is looking at ways in which we can create news > publications that are controlled and edited by it's readers, that are > censorship proof, that remove bias from journalism and allows more > accurate

same as Tox's is the same as many humans -- personal defensiveness. I'm not sure how to solve that, but working in public  and operating openly  are great starts. On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Jörg F. Wittenberger /...\ inviting getting academic researchers, students, lawyers etc. to provide reviews, applications and their legal opinion (in addition to the peer-review of the original publication) we hoped to foster confidence that we did not miss anything important.  But still that's the normal course of affairs in science

knowledge and culture, on par with scientific knowledge. The arts show that you can pay for a work and make it available to the public without further fee. Artists paid for their work don't complain that they don't get a fee for each visitor. Second-hand bookstore /...\ illegal. Public libraries either. "Intellectual property" is a confusing legal construct that covers anything from authorship rights to patent laws. It would be akin to say that a fence, a kitchen, and a book belong to the same "physical property". > my way of thinking

Researcher > Unit for Information Mining and Retrieval (UIMR) > Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) > NUI Galway, Ireland > > publications and slides: > http://www.deri.ie/about/team/member/benjamin_heitmann/ > http://www.slideshare.net/metaman/ > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Benjamin_Heitmann/ > > public PGP key available at: http://keys.gnupg.net/ > - -- Do *you* have

estimate the resources it takes All typos are shallow in the mailing list! :) And still: we underestimated how much resources we would need for publicity and evangelism. (The single worst mistake we made.) Could've saved myself a year if I understood that /...\ bachelor and master papers and a handful of grants from govt. programs. And still: we underestimated how much resources we would need for publicity and evangelism. (The single worst mistake we made.) and you can't waste time when you're 1) downstream of a platform that could

Mining and Retrieval (UIMR) > > > Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) > > > NUI Galway, Ireland > > > > > > publications and slides: > > > http://www.deri.ie/about/team/member/benjamin_heitmann/ > > > http://www.slideshare.net/metaman/ > > > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Benjamin_Heitmann/ /...\ public PGP key available at: http://keys.gnupg.net/ > > > > > > > > > > > - -- > > Do *you* have an awesome idea you never quite manage to do? > > http://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/chapters/liverpool/ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (Darwin

Mining and Retrieval (UIMR) > > > Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) > > > NUI Galway, Ireland > > > > > > publications and slides: > > > http://www.deri.ie/about/team/member/benjamin_heitmann/ > > > http://www.slideshare.net/metaman/ > > > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Benjamin_Heitmann/ /...\ public PGP key available at: http://keys.gnupg.net/ > > > > > > > > > > > - -- > > Do *you* have an awesome idea you never quite manage to do? > > http://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/chapters/liverpool/ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (Darwin

feed is an append-only singly linked list of messages, owned by an id. The id is just the hash of the public key used to sign the messages in a feed. A feed may not be signed by mutliple keys and the key may not be reassigned. The idea /...\ here >> http://ball.askemos.org/A876f1fe6998ca9d43f2e66c11a3f0d4a >> that is, this is one wallet of it. You want to log in using "public" to >> find the actual thing. It's controlled by a single (though having >> 80kLOC large) source file: >> http://ball.askemos.org

still be silently backdoored in some ways -- you can't generally verify that the server is running the same code that's in public source control. This BTW is only correct as far as it pertains to the secrecy of the information handled by the software.  Though even unmodified

more? How do you steer the evolution of such a system? All of these questions are easier to answer for infrastructure than for public-facing products and services. Facebook, Google and Twitter sit on top of several layers of mostly-decentralised infrastructure. Since you're building infrastructure, I wonder whether

answer for what functionality is required. Imagine a stupid-simple key-value store with PUT and GET. Each key has a corresponding public key submitted with it that can be used to authorize future updates of the same key. Keys expire after one year. That's it. Or could

answer for what functionality is required. > > Imagine a stupid-simple key-value store with PUT and GET. Each key has a corresponding public key submitted with it that can be used to authorize future updates of the same key. Keys expire after one year. That

build *completely* center-less networks with the same performance, efficiency, and security characteristics as centralized ones would rank up there with the discovery of public key cryptography. It'd be Nobel Prize material if there were a Nobel Prize for CS. Fortunately, your actual approach, the peer-(super) peer-peer

great until some entity amasses enough computing power to vote itself God. And you can do similar with other scarce or expensive things. IPv4 public addresses come to mind. Useful for banning trolls on IRC but if your attacker has a Class A or a botnet you're screwed

Thanks again, Microsoft. Though I think the OpenVPN users might have beat you to the equivalent solution, e.g. http://superuser.com/questions/120038/changing-network-type-from-unidentified-network-to-private-network-on-an-openvpn (And as a public service announcement, 1.1.1.1 is no longer a "fake" address as the 1.0.0.0/8 block was assigned to APNIC. http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xhtml

On Aug 14, 2014, at 1:30 AM, David Geib < trustiosity.zrm@gmail.com > wrote: It

that is the reason I volunteered to help.   One of my main interests is looking at ways in which we can create news publications that are controlled and edited by it's readers, that are censorship proof, that remove bias from journalism and allows more accurate and transparent dissemination

when you follow someone, you'd post a message saying "i followed $DavidGeib" (where "$DavidGeib" is the hash of your public key) and probably also include in this message a hint about where you can find the node with that key (an ip:port

current draft) for instance is here http://ball.askemos.org/A876f1fe6998ca9d43f2e66c11a3f0d4a that is, this is one wallet of it. You want to log in using "public" to find the actual thing. It's controlled by a single (though having 80kLOC large) source file: http://ball.askemos.org/Aa176138e655369f8c01c3044ced70cfc (be sure to read

think a simple registry in an Askemos compatible system would do.  Users would choose one or more registries and publish their peer's public key and status.  Plus some one-time code (TAN) to set the status to "compromised" when they lost control of their device. Otherwise

instance is here > http://ball.askemos.org/A876f1fe6998ca9d43f2e66c11a3f0d4a > that is, this is one wallet of it. You want to log in using "public" to > find the actual thing. It's controlled by a single (though having > 80kLOC large) source file: > http://ball.askemos.org/Aa176138e655369f8c01c3044ced70cfc

work with > communities which are rural, often remote, and largely disconnected to > the internet. At these places, access to CC-licensed or public domain > content is provided to children (sometimes specifically in schools) and > the larger community through village-spanning wifi networks (for an > example

work with > communities which are rural, often remote, and largely disconnected to > the internet. At these places, access to CC-licensed or public domain > content is provided to children (sometimes specifically in schools) and > the larger community through village-spanning wifi networks (for an > example

communities which are rural, often remote, and largely disconnected to > > the internet. At these places, access to CC-licensed or public domain > > content is provided to children (sometimes specifically in > schools) and > > the larger community through village-spanning wifi networks

Benjamin Heitmann (MSc, PhD), Post-Doctoral Researcher INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics  National University of Ireland, Galway publications and slides: https://www.resear chgate.net/profile/Benjamin_Heitmann http://www.slideshare.net/metaman/ -- This week's top digital retail stories http://www.theretailpractice.com/retail-bytes/

that is the reason I volunteered to help. One of my main interests is looking at ways in which we can create news publications that are controlled and edited by it's readers, that are censorship proof, that remove bias from journalism and allows more accurate and transparent dissemination

offered it already ;) For the mailing list, as he said Framapad is serious but for now their service "framalistes" is not open to the public. Anyway, if the members of this list are ready to switch to a mailing list which is not hosted by Google, we can find

know WebTorrent will be doing something a bit different, but there might be some good lessons from it to use when building the public face of WebTorrent. On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Feross Aboukhadijeh < feross@feross.org > wrote: Hey everyone! I think Redecentralize is awesome

against using them that way.  https://zeronet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/faq/#can-i-use-the-generated-site-addressprivate-key-to-accept-bitcoin-payments The sites are static-files hosted with bit-torrent. The sites are addressed by public keys, which are used to sign content manifests for the site. https://zeronet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/faq/#how-does-it-work Pretty simple to publish, you just create a directory, sign

know WebTorrent will be doing something a bit different, but there might be some good lessons from it to use when building the public face of WebTorrent. On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Feross Aboukhadijeh < feross@feross.org > wrote: Hey everyone! I think Redecentralize is awesome

maybe just easier to script against. Using a blockchain model for electronic voting seems very interesting, it's a shame that it hasn't publicly advanced beyond iamsatoshi's rough blog post  and Agora's private draft . That's something to watch for in 2014, I think. -- Eric

inviting getting academic researchers, students, lawyers etc. to provide reviews, applications and their legal opinion (in addition to the peer-review of the original publication) we hoped to foster confidence that we did not miss anything important.  But still that's the normal course of affairs in science

maybe just easier to script against. Using a blockchain model for electronic voting seems very interesting, it's a shame that it hasn't publicly advanced beyond iamsatoshi's rough blog post  and Agora's private draft . That's something to watch for in 2014, I think. -- Eric

still be silently backdoored in some ways -- you can't generally verify that the server is running the same code that's in public source control. But all the intentions, architecture, security, community engagement, good faith participation, etc. of the project are all obscured by closing the source. They exist

bachelor and master papers and a handful of grants from govt. programs. And still: we underestimated how much resources we would need for publicity and evangelism. (The single worst mistake we made.) and you can't waste time when you're 1) downstream of a platform that could

there an ETA on that package? On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:05 AM, Adam Ierymenko < adam.ierymenko@zerotier.com > wrote: ZeroTier One public beta binary release is now available for Macintosh and Linux. (Windows coming soon.) Tell me how broken it is, or isn't. https://www.zerotier.com/download.html

there an ETA on that package? On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:05 AM, Adam Ierymenko < adam.ierymenko@zerotier.com > wrote: ZeroTier One public beta binary release is now available for Macintosh and Linux. (Windows coming soon.) Tell me how broken it is, or isn't. https://www.zerotier.com/download.html

there an ETA on that package? On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:05 AM, Adam Ierymenko < adam.ierymenko@zerotier.com > wrote: ZeroTier One public beta binary release is now available for Macintosh and Linux. (Windows coming soon.) Tell me how broken it is, or isn't. https://www.zerotier.com/download.html

encrypted, still creatively owns his digital item where 'B' owns a legal copy of same. This is the conversation currently taking place between the public and the government's security agencies who want de-encryption backdoors always available. Once this debate resolves on encryptions side, the debate will naturally become

reason I volunteered to help. > > One of my main interests is looking at ways in which we can create news publications that are controlled and edited by it's readers, that are censorship proof, that remove bias from journalism and allows more accurate and transparent dissemination of information

zero-knowledge system hosted by many providers.  (If the servers are independent and don't communicate, we could have one server that publicly lists the IPs of the other servers.)  This is basically the Fluidinfo scenario, but hosted my multiple parties. Would either of these

reason I volunteered to help.   One of my main interests is looking at ways in which we can create news publications that are controlled and edited by it's readers, that are censorship proof, that remove bias from journalism and allows more accurate and transparent dissemination of information

ZeroTier One public beta binary release is now available for Macintosh and Linux. (Windows coming soon.) Tell me how broken it is, or isn't. https://www.zerotier.com/download.html

that is the reason I volunteered to help.   One of my main interests is looking at ways in which we can create news publications that are controlled and edited by it's readers, that are censorship proof, that remove bias from journalism and allows more accurate and transparent dissemination

largely work with communities which are rural, often remote, and largely disconnected to the internet. At these places, access to CC-licensed or public domain content is provided to children (sometimes specifically in schools) and the larger community through village-spanning wifi networks (for an example, see [2][3]). Many

that is the reason I volunteered to help. One of my main interests is looking at ways in which we can create news publications that are controlled and edited by it's readers, that are censorship proof, that remove bias from journalism and allows more accurate and transparent dissemination

talk about ?  --  Benjamin Heitmann (MSc, PhD), Post-Doctoral Researcher INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics  National University of Ireland, Galway publications and slides: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Benjamin_Heitmann http://www.slideshare.net/metaman/

know more, you can follow this https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to ask. You can verify my public key here: https://keybase.io/pierreozoux

university, Canterbury. There is a single scheduled track and two barcamp style tracks, as well as somewhere for organisations such as Fedora, Ubuntu, Hacker Public Radio, and ... possibly Redecentralize? to explain to people what they do, why they're there and how to get involved. If you're interested, please

features requested by focus group testers: a wider choice of notification sounds, and showing which contacts subscribe to a forum. Medium term: Public beta testing of our Android app, starting work on the desktop UI. Long term: Use Briar's data synchronization capabilities to support secure, distributed applications including blogging

still be silently backdoored in some ways -- you can't generally verify that the server is running the same code that's in public source control. This BTW is only correct as far as it pertains to the secrecy of the information handled by the software.  Though even unmodified

still be silently backdoored in some ways -- you can't generally verify that the server is running the same code that's in public source control. This BTW is only correct as far as it pertains to the secrecy of the information handled by the software.  Though even

still be silently backdoored in some ways -- you can't generally verify that the server is running the same code that's in public source control. This BTW is only correct as far as it pertains to the secrecy of the information handled by the software.  Though even