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Nadim Kobeissi 2025-06-27 15:46:58 +02:00
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\begin{frame}{The Cypherpunk Manifesto (1993)}
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\item \textbf{Key principles}:\footnote{\url{https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html}}
\begin{itemize}
\item Cryptography essential for privacy
\item Cannot trust governments/corporations
\item ``We must defend our own privacy''
\end{itemize}
\item \textbf{``Cypherpunks write code''}:
\begin{itemize}
\item Software defends privacy
\item Code is free for all to use
\item ``Software can't be destroyed''
\end{itemize}
\item \textbf{Vision}: Cryptography will spread globally, enabling anonymous transactions
\end{itemize}
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\begin{frame}{The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work}{Rogaway, 2015}
\begin{itemize}[<+->]
\item \textbf{Core thesis}: Cryptography is inherently political - it configures power
\begin{itemize}
\item Not just puzzles and math, but tools that shape society
\item Confers intrinsic moral dimension on the field
\end{itemize}
\item \textbf{The Snowden wake-up call}:
\begin{itemize}
\item Ordinary people lack basic communication privacy
\item Mass surveillance threatens democracy and human dignity
\item Cryptography's failure: focused on theory, not protecting people
\end{itemize}
\item \textbf{Academic cryptography's problems}:
\begin{itemize}
\item Divorced from real-world privacy concerns
\item Serves governments and corporations, not ordinary people
\item Marginalized secure messaging and anti-surveillance work
\end{itemize}
\item \textbf{Distinction}: Crypto-for-security (commercial) vs. crypto-for-privacy (social/political)
\end{itemize}
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\begin{frame}{Rogaway's call to action}
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\item \textbf{Cryptographers' moral obligations}:
\begin{itemize}
\item Remember responsibility to humanity
\item Consider societal implications of work
\item Use academic freedom to resist mass surveillance
\end{itemize}
\item \textbf{Concrete recommendations}:
\begin{itemize}
\item Develop anti-surveillance technologies
\item Think twice about military funding
\item Work on secure messaging and privacy tools
\item Apply practice-oriented provable security to privacy
\end{itemize}
\item \textbf{Vision for the field}:
\begin{itemize}
\item Build cryptographic commons beyond corporate/government reach
\item Make surveillance more expensive
\item Create ``boring crypto'' that just works for people
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
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\begin{frame}{FREAK}
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