[Cryptography] Darpa wants a secure messaging app based on blockchains
Paul Wouters
paul at cypherpunks.ca
Tue Apr 26 14:27:29 EDT 2016
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Henry Baker wrote:
> http://motherboard.vice.com/read/darpa-decentralized-blockchain-encryption-messaging-app
>
> https://sbir.defensebusiness.org/(X(1)S(1k4rl43mjo4osffksxsusdf1))/topics?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1#topic27859
> Buzzwords: decentralized, journaled transactions, cyptographically sound, blockchain, repudiation, deniability, one time.
>
> "Phase 3 will focus on commercialization", but any commercial system will require a back door, thus rendering it worthless for commercialization.
So I guess it cannot be based on publicly verifiable cryptography then,
because then the backdoor would be impossible. Guess they can just go
back to using Skipjack :P
Paul
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