Dr. Stuart Haber & Dr. Scott Stornetta: Distributing the trust

Crypto Voices: Episode 76

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Matthew and Fernando interview Dr. Stuart Haber & Dr. Scott Stornetta, authors of the seminal cryptographic 1991 paper “How to time-stamp a digital document,” a key part of the technological inspiration for Bitcoin, and as a result they share 3 of the 8 references in Satoshi Nakamoto’s “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” white paper.

We discuss their early days in cryptography, their background, and what led them to author their important time-stamping idea, and why trust and document provenance must be distributed.

We spend some time discussing their latest thinking on what makes an immutable ledger, the lingering dangers in cryptography, and how distributed consensus in many ways is a completely separate field from public key cryptography. We also discuss the importance of privacy, in light of recent mainstream, large corporate hacks of personal data, the latest victim being Capital One and its clients.

Listen on to learn more.

Links for more info:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/How-to-time-stamp-a-digital-document-Haber-Stornetta/06b055b0b53d39aa969afc2ba2c1d87985587db7

https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper

https://www.hs91.net/

http://www.surety.com/about-us/corporate-management/dr-stuart-haber

https://www.yugenpartners.com/team

https://breakermag.com/money-was-the-sizzle-blockchain-pioneer-w-scott-stornetta-assesses-satoshis-work/

https://twitter.com/StuartHaber

https://twitter.com/strangethingitl

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