1988-1992 - Crypto Anarchist Manifesto - Timothy C. May
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A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy.
Computer technology is on the verge of providing the ability for individuals and groups to communicate and interact with each otherin a totally anonymous manner. Two persons may exchange messages, conduct business, and negotiate electronic contracts without ever knowing the True Name, or legal identity, of the other. Interactions over networks will be untraceable, via extensive re- routing of encrypted packets and tamper-proof boxes which implement cryptographic protocols with nearly perfect assurance against any tampering. Reputations will be of central importance, far more important in dealings than even the credit ratings of today. These developments will alter completely the nature of government regulation, the ability to tax and control economic interactions, the ability to keep information secret, and will even alter the nature of trust and reputation.
The technology for this revolution--and it surely will be both a social and economic revolution--has existed in theory for the past decade. The methods are based upon public-key encryption, zero-knowledge interactive proof systems, and various software protocols for interaction, authentication, and verification. The focus has until now been on academic conferences in Europe and theU.S., conferences monitored closely by the National Security Agency. But only recently have computer networks and personal computers attained sufficient speed to make the ideas practically realizable. And the next ten years will bring enough additional speed to make the ideas economically feasible and essentially unstoppable. High-speed networks, ISDN, tamper-proof boxes, smart cards, satellites, Ku-band transmitters, multi-MIPS personal computers, and encryption chips now under development will be someof the enabling technologies.
The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders, and fears of societal disintegration. Many of these concerns will be valid; crypto anarchy will allow national secrets to be trade freely and will allow illicit and stolen materials to be traded. An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion. Various criminal and foreign elements will be active users of CryptoNet. But this will not haltthe spread of crypto anarchy.
Just as the technology of printing altered and reduced the power of medieval guilds and the social power structure, so too will cryptologic methods fundamentally alter the nature of corporationsand of government interference in economic transactions. Combined with emerging information markets, crypto anarchy will create a liquid market for any and all material which can be put into wordsand pictures. And just as a seemingly minor invention like barbed wire made possible the fencing-off of vast ranches and farms, thusaltering forever the concepts of land and property rights in the frontier West, so too will the seemingly minor discovery out of anarcane branch of mathematics come to be the wire clippers which dismantle the barbed wire around intellectual property.
Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences!--
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Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com| anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments.Higher Power: 2^756839 | PGP Public Key: by arrangement.
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Subject: The Crypto Anarchist ManifestoDate: Sun, 22 Nov 92 12:11:24 PST
Cypherpunks of the World,Several of you at the "physical Cypherpunks" gathering yesterday in Silicon Valley requested that more of the material passed out in meetings be available electronically to the entire readership of the Cypherpunks list, spooks, eavesdroppers, and all. <Gulp>Here's the "Crypto Anarchist Manifesto" I read at the September 1992 founding meeting. It dates back to mid-1988 and was distributed to some like-minded techno-anarchists at the "Crypto '88" conference and then again at the "Hackers Conference" that year. I later gave talks at Hackers on this in 1989 and 1990.There are a few things I'd change, but for historical reasons I'll just leave it as is. Some of the terms may be unfamiliar to you...I hope the Crypto Glossary I just distributed will help.(This should explain all those cryptic terms in my .signature!)--Tim May
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En Cyphernomicon
2.13.2. The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto - a complete copy of my 1988 pastiche of the Communist Manifesto is included in the chapter on Crypto Anarchy. - it needs rewriting, but for historical sake I've left it unchanged. - I'm proud that so much of it remains accurate. 16.4. The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto 16.4.1. Unchanged since it's writing in mid-1988, except for my e-mail address. - There are some changes I'd make, but... - It was written quickly, and in a style to deliberately mimic what I remembered of the "Communist Manifesto." (for ironic reasons) - Still., I'm proud that more than six years ago I correctly saw some major points which Cypherpunks have helped to make happen: remailers, anonymous communictation, reputation-based systems, etc. - For history's sake, here it is: 16.4.2. The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto 20.1. copyright THE CYPHERNOMICON: Cypherpunks FAQ and More, Version 0.666, 1994-09-10, Copyright Timothy C. May. All rights reserved. See the detailed disclaimer. Use short sections under "fair use" provisions, with appropriate credit, but don't put your name on my words. 20.3. Copyright Comments (leer)
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt
Steven Levy (feb. 1, 1993). Crypto Rebels. Wired https://www.wired.com/1993/02/crypto-rebels/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220309180409/https://www.wired.com/1993/02/crypto-rebels/
Aquí aparece traducido al checo y al eslovaco
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