"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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Replying to @sonyaellenmann
PGP on darknets is interesting to study in how "average" users self-educate & tradeoff risk vs. privacy. Ex: Dream market has optional server side PGP. If they get compromised, obviously bad to use. So users have three choices: manual PGP, risky automatic PGP, or no PGP
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Replying to @backus @sonyaellenmann
Figuring out PGP was probably the most difficult step for me in using a darknet market. I was usually lazy with PGP and with Dream never used it. I was an end user so not worried about cops really.
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Replying to @user14201 @sonyaellenmann
Yeah it’s legitimately confusing. I’m an engineer so I just use the command line stuff, but I actually find the GUI stuff a bit more confusing
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Replying to @backus @user14201
I dunno, I feel like GnuPG is not so hardpic.twitter.com/HqzXkGB975
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann @user14201
Importing keys, generating my own keys, signing stuff, armor vs. binary output, then encrypting text that wasn't already a file. Granted, last time I tried it was many years ago. Maybe I'm a snowflake, but I still felt like the learning curve was kinda steep
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John Backus Retweeted John Backus
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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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
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