re God Mode backdoors

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: "Ed Gerck, Ph.D." <egerck () gmail com>
> Date: August 17, 2018 at 10:40:45 GMT+9
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] God Mode backdoors
>
> Dave and all,
>  
> This modus operandi was explained already,  by Ken Thompson in "Reflections on Trusting Trust,"  and at The 
> Witness-Voting System, in my opening chapter in the book "Towards Trustworthy Elections, New Directions in Electronic 
> Voting", published by Springer Verlag. 
>
> User verifiability, transaction secrecy, and voting have to do with what is accessible to a CPU, or even blockchain 
> technology, as banking front-end has to do with back-end services, nothing, and due to security design reasons, such 
> as finding and exploiting security loopholes. 
>
> It does not even depend on key size or biometrics. In breaches, offenders and attackers can be state actors, modelled 
> as having "infinite" resources, in practice as unlimited as needed. This revelation confirms it, but is not news.
>
> What is needed is a method safe from machines, a cabal in collusion, extra-legal  powers, etc., and that is provided 
> not by encryption alone, ring-0, or assuring that there are no hash collisions (there are!), but by InformationTheory 
> methods. This is discussed in the article, with research copies available by request.
>
> Cheers, 
> Ed Gerck



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