This is a great conversation in general, including the inventors of the web and the internet, pushing for more crypto
http://www.w3.org/2015/10/27-tpac-minutes.html Vint: I would like to challenge people who are concerned about security...is there some irreducible level of inconvenience that's needed timbl: The level of convenience has also gone up so much. ... In a way, security has to be in everything. Everything you code or write in a spec can be exploited. ... the cool thing as you pointed out implicitly about RSA..... ... public key technology was a massive change. ... that has been very exciting ... I've been frustrated that we've not been able to live up to the potential of RSA ... people have said it didn't take off due to patents ... but you could also say it wasn't the technology piece, but rather the social aspect ... the PGP people said "I will only trust people I've had a beer with." ... you have a key-signing party ... and you can create a trusted infrastructure ... you had another social attitude which was that the world would have trust imposed upon them by world bodies ... these social structures came into conflict ... if you look at the security situation, one implication of moving from the Web to the social web ... is that we may be able to produce social protocols that will enable us to connect to each other or friend each other ... using standard protocols in a compatible way, and once we've done that we may realize "oh, we've all got public keys" ... so the keys could come to us through social graph, and we learn to create user interfaces that let us vouch for each others in different ways ... so we could fulfill the promise of powerful crypto
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