Email insecurity (was One of the great benefits of Open Source)
Email insecurity (was One of the great benefits of Open Source)
Posted Nov 10, 2025 12:00 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341)In reply to: Email insecurity (was One of the great benefits of Open Source) by farnz
Parent article: Debian to require Rust as of May 2026
I don't think Binance list Monero anymore, cause Monero is too good at what it does. We're basically in the middle of a repeat of the US' war on cryptography in the 90s. Mostly led by the EU this time. Just like then, it will fail, cause you can not unlearn and ban math. The CryptoNote paper exists, it's a beautiful paper - probably one of the seminal works in distributed consensus along with the papers on Bitcoin, Paxos, Radia Perlman's Byzantine General Routing System paper/Ph.D., Lamport's clock, and such - and they can not make it go away. Just like in the 90s, they will lose. (I need to get a T-shirt printed with the key equations from CryptoNote, like the old RSA t-shirts from the first crypto war).
So yes, this technology is still early days, it is not well integrated into other things, and it won't be for a while for various social reasons around distributed payment technologies and the clash these cause with state desires for tight control. Distributed payment technologies will win out eventually though.
If you want an entity to deal with, who will handle everything and indemnify you, there will be such entities. The existence of a technology that allows anyone to participate does NOT prevent anyone setting up a business around it so you can have a more traditional interface to it.
Posted Nov 10, 2025 12:10 UTC (Mon)
by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
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It sounds, though, like what you're saying is "this technology is too new and unreliable for people not yet willing to dive in fully", which in turn makes it completely unsuitable for sending money to pay for e-mail delivery. I have to commit to replacing my existing financial management (which I'm happy with) with a new technology I don't fully understand or trust, replace my existing private mail server (which I'm happy with) with a new one that I don't fully understand or trust, and do so for questionable benefits (since the assertions around what's going to work in the new system are at odds with the history of Prestel and of SMS).
I don't see how to set up a Monero wallet that accepts GBP; I sent you money using a payment from my credit card (which I paid off).
Email insecurity (was One of the great benefits of Open Source)
