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If i was in the mood of buying a car... looks nice... but not in the mood. Welcome aboard!
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I'm looking for interest in developing the security and crypto model for a new breed of forum. Using new security research into group signatures as forum membership. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.68.816&rep=rep1&type=pdfSomething like this is how a post will work in the forum concept. (part of a larger picture)  Comments are welcome. Message me on freenode. Goal: Secure and Forkable Forums for TOR hidden services. The forum is based upon pgp keys.
Works on the sign (personal) – encrypt (symmetric) – sign (group) concept.
Objectives:
• New forum system that uses group signatures to verify that a poster is a member without needing to identify the individual poster. Posters may use a personal private key to sign their posts. Or not.
• The system is adaptive so that members can be registered into the group, and revoked. Upon revoking, the symmetric key will be reset.
• Different groups have differing privileges.
• A ‘forum owner’ is the only fixed public key in the system, this is used to set the governing rules, it is also used to issue out the administrators public group key.
• Each user of a server gets to have a ‘key folder’ where they can keep an encrypted copy of their forum keys.
• Key management is completely automated; client side software will automate the key management and verification. The client only needs to supply her own personal pgp key.
• Natural web-of-trust development is made through merkle trees; one verifies others messages by posting a message.
Problems:
• Server is backed up publicly. Data may be secure initially, but eventually the (shared) secrets will be leaked to the adversary.
• Many server functions are no longer applicable, as the server has no access to the decrypted post tree.
• Timing attacks.
notes:
If the server were captured by an adversary, it would contain no data that would require the forum to shut down. Secondly, the server is blind to its posts. It has no idea what is being posted. Hashes of the forum database can be regularly saved by third parties, on a fork; the hashes can be used to check that nobody has tampered with the database. |
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This is off-topic because it is on-topic.
lol  I suggest we move this thread to the "Technical Support" subforum.. |
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In our society, at present, there are laws which decide, but in a stateless society... damned if I know who decides. I have a big problem with libertarianism and conflict resolution. Help me to understand guys.
In a free society, there will be only one form acceptable violence; violence in defense. (1st and 2nd degree only). Otherwise once reputation is what is built or destroyed. There is nothing stopping a free society from having a court and arbitration process for conflicts. Except the only time that one would be 'required (forced)' to attend is when one makes an act of aggressive violence. There are limited resources, that is what the free-market deals with. The market will distribute the limited resources based upon who is going to give up the most 'good-will' aka money, for the good or service. I like to think that in a free society people will in general be much more generous than in a taxation society. Even if it is less generous, the lack of violence (eg Tax), is much more important than any service supplied by tax. |
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bullshit, Bitcoin mining is around 10 to 100 times too easy.  It is overly profitable atm! |
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It doesn't matter if Anti-Libertarian happens to be the best system... You can have whatever system you want. Providing you respect my right to conduct only voluntary and consensual relationship, in all parts of life.  |
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my gosh!, you desperately need somebody with visual design skills! :O I'm may be willing to do the composition of The Bitcoin Weekly. But not for free. Maybe 10% income. I'm quite good; I will do the next two publications for free.
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not 100% up2date, but here is the posts:  |
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 Topics By Date, accumulative |
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Well, prepare for a rally on the markets.
Maybe after a 2-week delay while people figure out how to get money in to MtGox. ROFL !!!!! |
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If we implemented a simple 'send from address' to login all you would need to do is send a random amount of small coinage to the forum server. The server can check if you own that address or not; then send it back to you. |
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If he does he will bring the tablet version of bitcoin...on an ipad ?
ewww, you said a dirty word. ipad. |
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The current banking system is not lossless:
(P + I)issued + (P + I)collected != 0
where are the leaks?
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my mirc keeps on forgetting it's sasl information... I wonder what I'm doing wrong.  Overall good work... the Bitcoins are all good to send, you have done lots of good work! When I have time, I'll go through it all and try and check everything. |
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yes, I'm looking for somebody to take on the bounties, do all the handwork of keeping the progress up2 date, checking if there is any new people working on the projects, and paying out when the bounty is fulfilled.
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I am looking for somebody, or a group of people to manage my bounties for me. As I am now unable to commit to being reliable to fulfill them. 
I will compensate 200BTC (and the Bitcoins to fulfill my bounties) to whoever takes upon the role. If a new/low reputation user wants to take upon this roll, I will ask that a trusted person escrow the BTC.Comments/Questions? EDIT: Since Bitcoin is worth more... I'm not fulfilling any of my bounties if people have not checked that they are still active we me. |
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I'm glad you found a solution. Micro-payments aren't a problem for bitcoin, but they are for the dollar Yep! Micro-payments are easy! I have bitcoin, and pay people all the time in bitcoin. It really is easy. |
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