Not stick tho...
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Actually, he’s comparing apples to mistrals.
I’ll get my coat.
(* I can count on one hand the number of time I've used an AI tool.)
That would normally allow them to keep prices of export goods low...
A timely lesson!
With a few notable exceptions, the level of knowledge, expertise and understanding amongst government advisers and policy makers is abysmally low. c.f. https://jackgavigan.com/2015/11/23/how-well-advised-was-the-...
Making it possible to lookup and store data in a spreadsheet (maybe using something like the Google Sheets API) could unlock a huge amount of use cases.
I'll be watching this project with interest!
If you fell under one of those exceptions, you could get a special certificate for your website (from, e.g. Verisign) that allowed the webserver to "step up" the encryption negotiation with the browser to stronger algorithms and/or key lengths.
I first saw this movie in the mid-90s, and it sparked a mild fascination with how cryptography (specifically, RSA) works, that arguably influenced my career path.
Fun fact: Leonard Adleman (the A in RSA) drafted the words and slides used for the lecture scene: https://molecularscience.usc.edu/sneakers/
Insightful observation.
We've reached that point in the UK, where the government has proposed draconian legislation[1] that would allow the government to force companies to create backdoors into encrypted messaging services.
As a result, Whatsapp[2] and Signal[3] have said that they will pull out of the UK, and Apple[4] has said it will remove Facetime and iMessage from the UK if the legislation passes.
1: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/uk-government-very-clo...
2: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/09/whatsapp-...
The Zcash Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that builds and supports privacy infrastructure for the public good. We work on strengthening financial privacy with technology, focused on the Zcash cryptocurrency protocol and blockchain.
We are looking for a Core Engineer to join our (fully remote) team in building Zebra, a Rust implementation of the Zcash protocol.
More details on the role and our hiring process can be found here: https://www.zfnd.org/blog/opening-core-engineer/
"..blinding is done by the customers, who blind their coins before transmitting them to the central bank for signature."
"..to be sure that the coin has not been copied and already redeemed by another payee (i.e., has not been “double-spent”), the merchant must deposit the coin so that the central bank can check the coin against a file of redeemed coins."
The paper claims that the CBDC is proposes is "a genuine digital bearer instrument" but to my mind, "a genuine digital bearer instrument" should not be entirely reliant on a centralized trusted third party.
Several years ago, we (the Zcash team) came up with a proposal for a wholesale CBDC for use by commercial banks, that has strong privacy protections (based on the zero-knowledge proofs-based protocol that underpins Zcash) that would prevent other CBDC users from being able to observe transaction details or balances, while allowing the central bank to monitor activity on the CBDC ledger. It's designed to sit alongside and provide a decentralized alternative/backup to existing RTGS systems (which would have been useful during the FedWire outage yesterday!). Several major central banks showed enough interest to sit through the presentation but nobody was interested in doing a proof-of-concept or a pilot. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You can see a diagram outlining how it would work here: https://twitter.com/JackGavigan/status/1364669769639690246