Wei Dai

• cryptography:
  • Crypto++, a free C++ library for cryptography
  • speed benchmarks for various ciphers and hash functions
  • Home Pages of Cryptography Related People
  • The VMAC Internet Draft
  • a note about applications of Lucas sequences in cryptography
  • the crypto-optimization mailing list
  • an attack against SSH2 protocol
• anonymity:
  • PipeNet, a protocol for low-latency anonymous communication
  • two attacks against a PipeNet-like protocol once used by the Freedom service
  • b-money, a scheme for a group of untraceable digital pseudonyms to pay each other with money and to enforce contracts amongst themselves without outside help
• social costs of intelligence:
  • Why good memory could be bad for you: game theoretic analysis of a monopolist with memory.
  • Why cleverness could be bad for you: a game where the smarter players lose.
• miscellaneous ideas:
  • A really simple interpretation of quantum mechanics.
  • How to make more money with your employee stock options at no extra risk.
  • What should advanced civilizations do with waste heat? Use black holes as heat sinks.
  • An alternative to intellectual property: government funding of information goods based on measured value.
• decision theory, rationality, AI safety/alignnment, and the Singularity:
  • My posts on Less Wrong, "a community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality".
• other places I used to hang out:
  • cypherpunks
  • extropians (my mirror of 1996-2003 extropians archive)
  • SL4
  • everything-list

To email me, use "weidai+web" at my personal domain. Alternatively, if you have any questions for me that can be answered in public, please visit my AMA on Less Wrong and post your questions there. Please note that as of this writing, any purported photos of me on the Internet are actually of other people named Wei Dai.

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