The Best Defense Against Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis
The cypherpunks were wrong (but also right)
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10 min readMar 27, 2022
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Listen to those who extol the virtues of blockchain and cryptocurrency and pretty soon, you’ll hear about the power of cryptocurrency to resist tyranny.
This isn’t a novel claim: the cypherpunk movement of the early 1990s (widely acknowledged as the intellectual and technological…