Justin Myles Holmes

Today's kids need end-to-end encryption.

Remember: the apocryphal ostrich who buries its head in the sand only thinks it can't be seen; it makes precisely the same mistake that we do when we plan our kids' daily routines in plaintext on servers owned by advertisers and snooped by states.

Blockchain

Three things that NuCypher's "Ursula" can do that vanilla public-key cryptography can't

There are three good answers - and several more OK answers. This post will go through the three good answers and leave the reader to mull over the others.

Welcoming my friend Damon Ciarelli to NuCypher

Responding to a need for more stovetop popcorn, verbose hand gestures to explain programming metaphors, and tales of bowling in every state in the union, NuCypher has made the highly questionable and haphazard decision to hire my fellow hendrix core developer, former colleague, and increasingly dear friend Damon Ciarelli. At

Upgradeable Smart Contracts: In Defense of delegateCall()

If privacy-preserving solutions are unaffordable, the security discussion is already a non-starter.In the weird world of upgradeable smart contracts (or have we moved to calling them "persistent scripts" yet?), three possible patterns form a great majority of implementations: migrations (though these are sometimes positioned as an alternative to upgrades)

Why we’re rolling our own “intra-planetary” node discovery at NuCypher

Nearly all of my casual conversations about decentralized network architecture for the past three months or so have quickly come to be (at…