Is encryption prior to decryption (and ultimately a stronger force)?
Building off my last post – for my podcast this week, we started reading Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of The Internet by Julian Assange (et al.). In it, Assange suggests that encryption is actually a stronger force than decryption and will essentially remain a step ahead due to it being the natural state of the universe. Building from there, he suggests that this is the reason crypto technologies will be the path to freedom from authoritarian governments. So even as authoritarians figure out hoe to decrypt some old technology, new encrypted technologies will emerge.
I think there is something deep to this idea. However, I don’t have any idea if it is actually ‘true’, but I do enjoy the optimism of it.
What do you think?
The universe believes in encryption. It is easier to encrypt information than it is to decrypt it.
We saw we could use this strange property to create the laws of a new world….And in this manner to declare independence.
Scientists in the Manhattan Project discovered that the uni- verse permitted the construction of a nuclear bomb. This was not an obvious conclusion. Perhaps nuclear weapons were not within the laws of physics. However, the universe believes in atomic bombs and nuclear reactors. They are a phenomenon the universe blesses, like salt, sea or stars.
Similarly, the universe, our physical universe, has that property that makes it possible for an individual or a group of individuals to reliably, automatically, even without knowing, encipher something, so that all the resources and all the political will of the strongest super- power on earth may not decipher it. And the paths of encipherment between people can mesh together to create regions free from the coercive force of the outer state. Free from mass interception. Free from state control. (Assange – Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of The Internet)
If you’re interested, here are links to the full episode:
Apple – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pdamx-31-3-the-cryptographic-arms-race/id1691736489?i=1000674227020
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