arkinox on Nostr: Location-based encryption isn't about encryption. It's about modeling locality — a ...

Location-based encryption isn't about encryption. It's about modeling locality — a property of reality — in a digital space using math. In reality, we only have access to local things, but in digital systems access is not determined by proximity but rather by address.

Location-based encryption turns the spaceless digital world into a haze where joules must be expended to traverse and discover digital secrets.

Trustless location-based encryption didn't exist. Now it does. I've been trying to solve this problem for almost 3 years. I'm really excited about this!

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I just published a specification for Cyberspace v2: https://github.com/arkin0x/cyberspace/blob/master/CYBERSPACE_MOVEMENT_SYSTEM.md

The coordinate system remains the same, but I've developed a mathematical fabric for cyberspace that completely changes how proof-of-work is done and how it relates to traversing the space.

This new mathematical fabric enables the holy grail of what I've been trying to invent for the past couple years: location-based encryption. Last year I came up with a clunky way to do it via WASM blobs, but that is no longer necessary. Cyberspace v2 creates a simple mathematical way to encrypt a secret by its location such that one must travel to that location in order to discover and decrypt it.

Take a look at the new specification: https://github.com/arkin0x/cyberspace/blob/master/CYBERSPACE_MOVEMENT_SYSTEM.md

and discuss it at https://straylight.cafe


More to come!