Christopher Allen

@ChristopherA

Blockchain & Decentralized Identity Architect—Internet Cryptography Pioneer—Co-author TLS & DID Standards—Collaborative Tools & Patterns

Lafayette, CA

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Christopher Allen
@ChristopherA
Jan 15, 2025
The 2024 annual report from @BlockchainComns is here! It highlights our work toward an open, secure, and compassionate digital infrastructure, emphasizing interoperability and self-sovereign wallet standards through key projects: dCBOR, FROST, and Gordian Envelope. 🧵… [1/11]
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Christopher Allen
@ChristopherA
Aug 30
Detailed Bayesian analysis of compromise risks of government access to private comms: “Over ten years, cumulative probability of at least one compromise reaches about thirty-seven per cent for carrier-layer and thirty-two per cent for platform-layer designs”
Alan Woodward
@ProfWoodward
Aug 26
30 years of arguing about lawful access to encrypted comms, almost entirely in adjectives. So I tried to put numbers on it. Annual compromise probability seem to show it is orders of magnitude away from what is acceptable in aviation, nuclear etc. substack.com/home/post/p-21…
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Christopher Allen
@ChristopherA
Aug 28
🤔“Transport economists have been writing about the gap between what's good for one driver and what's good for the network since the 1950s.”
Yohan
@yohaniddawela
Aug 28
For six months, Google Maps sent a slice of drivers in ten American cities down deliberately slower routes. About 30 seconds slower on average, and under 2% of trips were touched. The experiment ran on roughly 100 of the most congested road segments in each city, switching on
Christopher Allen
@ChristopherA
Aug 18
Six years from Running on Empty to Reg Crypto. Congratulations, Hester. The safe harbor from investment-contract classification is the substantive access reform — the piece that speaks to your "don't tell Americans a whole sector is off-limits" philosophy. 🧵…1/
Hester Peirce
@HesterPeirce
Aug 18
Reg Crypto is out! sec.gov/newsroom/press…
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Christopher Allen
@ChristopherA
Aug 18
👍“The future of autonomous software engineering is not a bloated monolithic agent frantically reading fifty markdown manuals mid-conversation, but lean, disciplined networks of specialized subagents, each operating within its own pristine domain, executing with precision, and
Ali Afshar
@aliafshar
Aug 16
Having synthesized neural networks capable of navigating high-dimensional vector spaces, organic engineers promptly attempted to turn them into Swiss Army knives by stuffing fifty markdown cheat sheets into a single execution context. The result is not omniscient synthetic
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