On 18 August 2013 17:49, Michael Powers <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep, the bitcoin stuff seems to be a distraction for whatever reason. > > The only connection with bitcoin is that each blog gets a keypair and the > public key is also the guid. Now if the keypair generation happens to > adheres to bitcoin's scheme, then your blog id happens to be a payment > address too, which could be useful for micropayment content monetization. > > I've had some people ask me if this is going to make them wanted by the > feds (or the Fed for that matter) so I'm considering just taking the whole > thing out. But there it is. > > The "blog chain" is merely bitcoin-inspired. Each entry contains the > message digest of the previous entry, hence the "blog chain" ala block > chain, so you can prove against censored messages or tampering. > > All we're doing is extending RSS to support self-signed and/or > self-encrypted entries. Your public posts remain public and > search-indexable but the private posts you encrypt with the recipient's > public key (aka their blog id and -ahem- payment address) so that it shows > up in your rss feed as encoded text. Existing RSS reader can read your > feed; you can follow any existing RSS feed. > > (I've been reading the client-side/javscript encryption stuff here with > interest.) > > White paper is here: http://trsst.com > > If it's not clear by now, I'm the project founder. > > Happy to answer any other questions and generally would love feedback. >
Merkle trees (a la Certificate Transparency) are more efficient than chains. Also, if you did that, you could have a global log, and so prove against censorship of an entire blog. > Thanks. > > ----- > > > I came across this project in kickstarter. Subscribers of this list may > > find it interesting. (Btw I am not associated with them) > > > They lost me at bitcoin. Why??? > > > -- > > > > *Welcome to Trsst: An Open and Secure Alternative to Twitter* > > > > Post your thoughts, share links, and follow other interesting people or > > web sites, using the web or your mobile or any software of your choice. > > > > - All of your private posts to individuals or friends and family are > > securely encrypted so that even your hosting provider - or government > - > > can't unlock them. > > - All of your public posts are digitally signed so you can prove that > > no one - and no government - modified or censored your writings. > > - You control your identity and your posts and can move them to > > another site or hosting provider at any time. > > > > Think of Trsst as an RSS reader (and writer) that works like Twitter but > > built for the open web. The public stuff stays public and > > search-indexable, and the private stuff is encrypted and secured. Only > you > > will hold your keys, so your hosting provider can't sell you out. > > > > > > > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1904431672/trsst-a-distributed-secure-blog-platform-for-the-o/description > > > > -- > Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. > Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > [email protected]. >
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