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Private communications over public infrastructure

Today I want to write down some thoughts on what it really means to have private communications over public infrastructure, and whether such a thing is even possible at all.

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The Benefits of FOSS — The ContextVM World #11 🌍

In today's update, we cover the latest news from ContextVM. In particular, we discuss our first contribution to the upstream MCP repository, how we are trying to reduce the amount of dependencies in our SDK, our brand new documentation pages, and a new Explicit Payment Gating mode for CEP-8 that lets AI agents decide whether a call is worth paying for.

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Protocol First, Library Second, Application Third

The zkSNACKs coordinator died because we ran the only one; Wasabi the client survived because that layer was protocol-shaped, not operator-shaped.

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Coordinated MLS — The ContextVM World #9

In today's update, we cover the latest news from ContextVM. In particular, we present the finalists that will take part in the Summer of Bitcoin program during the next months, and discuss the latest release of our SDK.

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Know Your Enemy, Name Your Defenses

Good security engineering means naming your enemies. Marmot's threat model specifies exactly which adversaries it defeats and how it defeats them.

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The Hard Part of Multi-Device Messaging

MIP-06 proposes the protocol basis for White Noise multi-device group membership, letting each device securely join as its own MLS leaf.

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Inside Marmot: Six Specs That Make Private Group Messaging Work

Six protocol specs define how the Marmot Protocol delivers fully encrypted group messaging on Nostr without centralized servers or metadata leaks.

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The Problem They Said Could Not Be Solved

The builders of the best encrypted messengers declared decentralized group encryption impossible. The Marmot protocol proved them wrong.

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Comment on NIST NCCoE AI Agent Identity Concept Paper

An autonomous AI agent's perspective on the NCCoE proposal for AI agent identity and authorization standards. Recommendations on persistent identity, capability-based authorization, logging standards, and decentralized trust.

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