This might make more sense if you zoomed in, and talked about specific capabilities rather than “cryptography” in general. The current state of crypto is that there are off-the-shelf cyphers that are believed to be unbreakable, and they can also be combined and given larger key sizes to make extra-unbreakable versions in case of mathematical advance. There are also several publicly accessible onion networks. What new capability do you imagine being developed, which would be bad for the world iff it wasn’t open?
I don’t know what Snarles is thinking of, but there are examples that one can provide. For example, if someone finds an efficient way of factoring integers, and keeps this secret, they can probably do a lot more damage than they can if their ability is publicly known. However, I don’t see how in any substantial way that sort of worry connects with snarles’ apparent concern about singletons.
This might make more sense if you zoomed in, and talked about specific capabilities rather than “cryptography” in general. The current state of crypto is that there are off-the-shelf cyphers that are believed to be unbreakable, and they can also be combined and given larger key sizes to make extra-unbreakable versions in case of mathematical advance. There are also several publicly accessible onion networks. What new capability do you imagine being developed, which would be bad for the world iff it wasn’t open?
I don’t know what Snarles is thinking of, but there are examples that one can provide. For example, if someone finds an efficient way of factoring integers, and keeps this secret, they can probably do a lot more damage than they can if their ability is publicly known. However, I don’t see how in any substantial way that sort of worry connects with snarles’ apparent concern about singletons.