#cypherpunks — Public Fediverse posts

@Em0nM4stodon so by now you should all have received the wireguard configurations for the cells that you have been introduced to, shorn of any public keys and rendezvous information. You should also, at this point, have self-authenticated using your own public key to your designated contact. You have been instructed in the correct procedure regarding operating your station, so this is just a reminder to maintain radio silence on each network until the pre-agreed signals have been passed through the network.
Distress networks, however, are continuously available. If you fail to read a beacon signal from these for any significant length of time, report this through the designated secondary channel.

#AnarchoSyndicalism #CypherPunks

🇫🇷🚔 Oh la la! #GrapheneOS got its beret in a twist and took the baguette express out of #France, leaving law enforcement croissants 🥐 scratching their heads. Apparently, even #cypherpunks aren't immune to running from mime police threats. 🤡📤
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115606319562587450 #lawenforcement #technology #HackerNews #ngated

Pluralistic: "Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works" (05 Nov 2025)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/05/xor-xand-xnor-nand-nor/

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @cryptadamist Yes.

What they call ’#democratisation’ is a scam. The #cypherpunks etc whatever they like to think of themselves, want nothing but complete freedom from enforcement of any laws on them.

They want the ”freedom” for the will of the elected majority to not apply to them.

It ends the rule of law, it ends democracy. And as lawless spaces have to governed by somebody in any case, it turns the structure of society into a #mafia.

#Kryptografie, #Cypherpunks und ethische Überlegungen.
Das Paper und der abstract klingen interessant.
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Cryptography at the Crossroads: Ethical Responsibility, the Cypherpunk Movement and Institutions
https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/970

#DevConf_CZ invites you to join co-located event "Logos Assembly Brno" with Logos core contributor Vaclav Pavlin. Join the discussion topics technical and philosophical – from the ethos of the #cypherpunks to the latest in #cryptographic research – in relaxed surroundings with food, drinks, and stimulating discussions.

📍Students Club, @FIT_VUT
🗓️ June 13, 6:00PM

👆Registration is required: https://pretalx.com/devconf-cz-2024/talk/THFYMP

Calling all #cypherpunks, can anyone point me to an example of an actual SWEET32 attack on a system, such as a blog article, video, or CTF where the attack is actually done? I know about sweet32.info and that there's a Metsaploit module for it, but I don't see this as a practical attack, so looking for more info.

Message Stronger than Ever. They fookin Knew IT #cypherpunks #privacyMatters

RIP David Kahn: Historian of cryptography; for years his book was the only open information about American cryptographic practice
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/02/01/david-kahn-codebreakers-nsa-dead/
#cryptography #cypherpunks #davidkahn #obituary #history #writing #kahn #+

the world need more real #cypherpunks

This goes to show that politicians corrupt everything they touch and regulation is created only to serve their interests, in this case under the guise of child sexual abuse.

#Privacy and #Encryption should be based on the #Cypherpunks principles of anonymity in #Permissionless systems where gatekeepers are powerless by design.

There is no way to #FixTheCRA, it should be bypassed by proper #FOSS software.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-2-0-eu-governments-set-to-approve-the-end-of-private-messaging-and-secure-encryption/

#Crypto #Cryptocurrencies #Cryptoeconomics #CryptoAnarchy #CypherPunks #Anonymity #Decentralization: "Existing scholarship on cryptoeconomics describes this field as a new and emergent phenomenon. In this paper, I claim that crypto anarchists and cryptoeconomists design and build decentralised networks as governance systems according to the common principles of cryptography, economics, and engineering, and thus, cryptoeconomics is not new but has historical intellectual roots in the political ideology of Crypto Anarchy. Cryptoeconomics is a multidisciplinary field of study concerned with the design of decentralised systems that facilitate the coordination of multiple actors. Practitioners of crypteoconomics, known as “cryptoeconomists,” employ engineering and economic methods to create institutional infrastructure for social coordination. Crypto Anarchy is a political ideology that emphasises autonomy and anonymity and the practice of self-organising through technical means largely attributed to a counter-cultural subgroup known as the “cypherpunks”. I demonstrate the link between Crypto Anarchy and cryptoeconomics through the analysis of empirical evidence from primary archival sources, secondary sources, and academic literature. The implication of these findings is a deeper understanding of what the creation of cryptoeconomic systems does in enabling a political economy of distributed, autonomous coordination. What cryptoeconomists did not adopt and perpetuate is a value for anonymity, which is where the social outcomes of Crypto Anarchy and cryptoeconomics diverge."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2023.2183643

#Crypto #Cryptocurrencies #Bitcoin #Blockchain #Cypherpunks #Decentralization: "David Chaum and the cypherpunks are right. Modern crypto is mostly wrong. I say ‘mostly’ because crypto is littered with fully anonymous actors jealously guarding their True Names. Unfortunately a lot of those anonymous individuals are among the worst scammers in crypto.

But the rest of crypto went down the path of using centralized exchanges. KYC AML CFT PEP SOF* checks and all the rest. [KYC = Know Your Customer; AML = Anti Money Laundering; CFT = Combating Financing of Terrorism; PEP – Politically Exposed Person, SOF = Source of Funds] The problem is that these exchanges have a foot in both worlds: they’re cypherpunk on the side where they’re getting tokens from the raw chaos of the blockchains. They’re TradFi (traditional finance) where they are taking copies of passports and verifying home addresses. As a result, all the legal liability piles up in the exchanges and they also have huge opportunities for operating their own scams: see FTX.

The SEC case against Coinbase is likely to be where a lot of this mess gets sorted out but I am not liking Coinbase’s chances."

https://magazine.mindplex.ai/risk-and-precarity-part-3-possible-solutions-in-conversation-with-vinay-gupta/

The #Crypto #Anarchist Manifesto from Timothy C. May and several essays from other #Cypherpunks are essential reads for #Devs thinking about succumbing to regulators.

Perhaps even for those already under those chains these words of wisdom might provide useful ideas on how to be subversive against modern #Dystopia.

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/crypto-anarchist-manifesto/

@Yostme
The best technologies encode the laws into them such that a person need not lobby the unaccountable #corporateState.

The best examples of this come from the #cypherpunks with their motto, "cypherpunks write code". Meaning that they don't lobb, they #code.

As a result we have incredible technologies that are designed in spite of corporate state overreach, like #bitcoin, monero and #I2P.

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Good post about #Privacy #Crypto #Bitcoin

"...#technology is used as a means to manipulate behaviour, control and limit people’s #freedom. This is something that the early #Cypherpunks were already warning about in the 80s..."

https://ladevochka.medium.com/5-reasons-why-we-should-all-be-cypherpunks-479d35345128

"Cryptography will ineluctably spread over the whole globe, and with it the anonymous transactions systems that it makes possible."

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/cypherpunk-manifesto/

#Crypto #cypherpunks #Liberty #FreeSpeech

@douginamug
Bad? As in #cypherpunks and #hackers? Who worked together to invent something good, #I2P and #bitcoin.

#inventions
@shebang

Remember how all the data stored locally from Signal Desktop is completely unencrypted?

Since the developers clearly aren't interested in changing this, I've written a shell script that makes it a breeze to encrypt and decrypt your Signal Desktop data using VeraCrypt.

It will also create a launcher for you (an .app on MacOS and a shell script on Linux) to automatically mount the encrypted storage before launching Signal, and automatically unmount it when exiting.

Just run the launcher instead of the app, and pretend that the password prompt is a Signal feature :)

https://github.com/n0kovo/Signal-Desktop-Encrypter

#signal #signaldesktop #signalmessenger #opsec #privacy #privacymatters #encryption #cryptography #cypherpunks #cypherpunk @signalapp