The distinction is crypto is applied. The axioms and rules don't require belief or faith - applied crypto has shown time and time again to require belief and faith.
Crypto is opaque - but open. DES was once thought to be secure. RSA was once thought to be secure. PKI was once thought to be secure. -Travis On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Troy Benjegerdes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:20:33PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > John Young writes: > > | Comsec dream: secure means uniquely controllable by each person. > > | Free of faith, scripture, authorities, investors, apologists, > exploiters. > > > > > > Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The > > savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. > > Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. > > -- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943) > > From each according to his ability, to each according to his need > > Does this not describe the copyleft and copyfree software? Or maybe > it describes a world where farmers figure out they can make more > money by giving away all the food the world needs, and knowing > when to sell the rest for profit? > > But I have a hard time believing that mathematics is anything other > than a testable shared belief, in which we all share faith. > -- Twitter <https://twitter.com/tbiehn> | LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/travisbiehn> | GitHub <http://github.com/tbiehn> | TravisBiehn.com <http://www.travisbiehn.com> | Google Plus <https://plus.google.com/+TravisBiehn>
