"On darknet markets, a lot of vendors understand that using PGP is important because they spend a lot of time worried about being raided and sent to jail. End users don't understand this as much, so PGP usage varies for casual buyers." https://medium.com/@jbackus/minimum-viable-decentralization-d813dcf653fc … @backus
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oof key management definitely sucks
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Yeah. This stuff is a hard problem too and something that has haunted privacy for a long time I think. One of the "silver linings for crypto-haters" I like to mention is that crypto/ICO hype may actually fund breakthroughs for thishttps://twitter.com/backus/status/1009286381682581504 …
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Exactly. Its the mechanics of the whole process that's tricky at first. Once you've done it successfully it seems easy.
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Incentivize tech industry to not build monopolies
Fund UI experiments for privacy tools
Expose students to cryptography, distributed systems
Provide crypto + distributed systems case studies for academia