[Cryptography] "Public Accountability vs. Secret Laws: Can They Coexist?"

[Ryan Carboni]

https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/664

Someone proposed a blockchain for secret government decisions.

The idea that you have to pay people to store encrypted secret information
is silly. Forty people are storing WikiLeak's secrets for free (
41b179c71088ff5032ad8517c9ff5a3f40c7490f ).

It is disappointing that papers exist where the authors lack common sense,
the quote of Kafka at the beginning is nice but it doesn't seem to account
for how reality works. Released decisions which are enforced against every
major corporation have the name of the corporation redacted (hmm, is this
Verizon? Comcast? is there an option for all of the above?). Redacting a
document is changing it, and would have a different hash regardless.
Furthermore, these are documents that in order for the government to
operate, must be seen by a large number of people, who if they are
betraying the public trust, would be fired.

It's almost as if civil liberty activists don't really take their jobs
seriously. Who on Earth advocates for civil liberty and doesn't understand
one iota of political science?
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