Cryptography

• Exit Keybase

  I am no longer using Keybase. The sale of the company to Zoom introduces too much doubt about the product for me to continue recommending it.

• Identity and Cryptography in the Current Year

  I’ve got about three different lead-ins to this post rattling around my head. There’s the “we don’t have flying cars, but we have public-key cryptography that isn’t completely terrible” angle. There’s the “truly we are living in a William Gibson novel” angle. But I think I’ll take the “here’s a true story about how public-key cryptography is being used right this second” angle. Everybody loves a good anecdote, right?

  So there’s this fellow by the name of Michael Anderson. Big alt-right Trump supporter type. He tends to approach Twitter the way Leroy Jenkins approaches WoW raids: big, loud, and in a way that aggravates a large number of the party. Mr. Anderson has had his account banned repeatedly, both before and after Twitter’s recent purges of alt-right accounts. But every time his account is suspended for good, he makes a new account and keeps on trucking.