Asymetric.bc
Asymetric bc [also known as Matryoshka Overlocking] is a cryptography procedure intended to make it harder for criminals to misuse cryptography to perform crimes and evade law enforcement.
Privacy is justifiably important to people. No one wants their personal letters in the public domain. Strong encryption helps provide privacy by making private communcations impractical to read by uninvited third parties.
Privacy is also problematic to law enforcement, who wish to prevent wrongdoers using the same strong encryption to perform crimes. No one but the most ardent privacy advocate would argue for an absolute right to privacy for criminals breaking the law, and yet this is what happens. Cryptography is motive agnostic. Anyone can use it, for whatever reason.
Asymetric bc helps bridge the gap by enabling good citizens to store encrypted private keys in a blockchain. The key [to say a messaging system] is released to a beneficiary [say the police] upon completion of a test [say the presentation of a warrant] to a referee [say a court]. Any key, beneficiary, test and referee may be substituted.
The theoretical basis of Asymetric bc is Blocking Theory.
The source code for Asymetric bc is available on request to qualified applicants.
Industrial.bc
Industrial bc is a new blockchain for business and industry. There are no inbuilt tokens, and no cryptocurrency. Instead, Industrial bc is purely for data storage. The public face of Industrial bc is Hosho Labs.
Industrial bc is the blockchain used in Asymetric bc, providing its immutable data store.
Blockchains help prevent crime. Records stored in a blockchain cannot be altered, only added to. Using a blockchain for record keeping pre-identifies those records as honest, since they can never be changed in the way conventional storage can be.
Industrial bc is being redeveloped now as Xbc [eXperimental Blockchain] at the Blockchain R&D Lab at Curtin University. Xbc is a public blockchain. It will be an open source system, available to researchers everywhere.
The Xbc White Paper is abailable here
Blocking Theory
Is privacy a right, or is it contingent on circumstances? And if it's contingent, then who gets to decide, and when, and how?
It is clear from our research that cryptographic key escrow combined with blockchain has a strongly adverse effect on the use of a privacy system by criminals, and only a mildly adverse effect on good citizens.
This has the effect of reducing the space available for criminals to operate. They may respond by using different tools, but change under pressure has the effect of degrading performance. The task of law enforcement is made easier by some systems [and some people] being removed from suspicion, and by entropy, in the sense that more useful systems will tend to replaced by less useful systems over time.
The comparison is Toyota LandCruisers. These vehicles are widely misused by terrorists. If we could somehow make them less useful to those users, while retaining their usefulness to others, then we'd degrade their performance.
As such measures become more widely accepted, the pool of useful resources decreases, and crime becomes more difficult to commit.
This process of blocking out resources by making them less useful only to targeted users is called block theory.
A research paper on this subject will be published here in 2022.
