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26 October 2013 NSA, Love and Mathematics
Cryptome 26 October 2013: Love and Math, by Edward Frenkel, is reviewed in tomorrow's NY Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/books/review/love-and-math-by-edward-frenkel.html Excerpt: "Frenkel believes math deserves to be an integral part of our culture. Why is everyone talking about planets, atoms and DNA and not symmetry groups? For one thing, you can’t get cancer from a mutation of a symmetry group. But Frenkel writes that math 'directs the flow of the universe.' It’s as elegant as music and as much a part of our intellectual heritage as literature. He strives to awaken our wonder by taking us on an equation-packed tour of his research, in which he reveals a 'hidden' world few of us encountered in school." Returning to Whit Diffie musing on what led to his discovery or invention of public key cryptography -- found in what might be termed a hidden world of mathematics -- there may be still hidden mathematical forms of communication that do not rely upon technology's inevitable comsec failure. The NSA global invasion appears almost wholly based on the failure of technology rather than mathematics, as our esteemed cryptographers remind. Much of the current tweaking and further invention appear driven by technology, code, engineering, politics, law and polemics, again not mathematics. No wonder, that, for math is beyond grasp of those who believe the non-mathematical is too hard to see, hear, smell, touch, write, understand, market and melodramatically induce media delirium by way of officially-hostile and unauthorized disclosures. Whither the NSA bountiful mathematicians in protecting its family jewels of invasive technology? Stuck in crypto labs musing like Diffies in manifold hideways?
Frenkel's linking of love and mathematics is worth pondering in the face
of the megalomania, demogoguery, popularity and profitability of faultly
technology, ever breeding abuse, counter abuse, blame and exculpation, feeding
the market for official joined to unofficial invasion and combat, collateral
damage inevitable.
Cryptome 25 October 2013: A useful invention, or discovery, similar to that of public key enryption, would be to devise a means to communicate such that no communication, as we now know it, would actually occur. Consider what ineffable thought led young Whit Diffie to imagine PKC. He says it came to him at one point, not altogether believable at first, thinking there must be a fault somewhere, if valid surely it had been figured out before. As we know, it had been, by the quiet Brits, and kept top secret: http://cryptome.org/jya/ellisdoc.htm What else like that is going on, has gone on, will gone on, all the while evading classification at birth, not patented, not yet institutionalized in secrecy madhouses hoarding the best and brightest, as we know those terms of entrapment. Consider that a non-communication ineffability has been invented, or discovered, or is gestating in one or more young minds not yet regimented by too much education, too much experience, too much jaded skepticism, too little imagination, too much comfort of reputation, salary, prizes and pensions, too much blind faith in technology or mathematics, too much secrecy as we know them to be crushing of novelty and waywardness. For example, if the non-communication required no physical or electromagnetic means but was based on say, conviction, or concepts, or ideas, or imagination. The message would be intuited, let us say, or grasped by deduction or induction, or simply was shared without obvious effort except perhaps an urge or yearning or desire or hunger or passion or insight, or why not go for it, love. Turns out this is not all that unusual. It is rather commonplace if not ubiquitous. Animals do it, so do vegetables, and probably minerals, though that is hard to say for sure, perhaps a volcanic eruption or earthquake or asteroid is passing along content as well as metadata. Thought, perhaps faith, exchanges content by ineffability. The arts, perhaps theoretical if not experimental science, do too. Brian Carroll has been exploring these possibilities since 1999: http://cryptome.org/jya/arch-elec.htm http://org.noemalab.eu/sections/ideas/ideas_articles/pdf/b_carroll_seeing_cyberspace.pdf If Carroll, then others, most of them little known, not on the list of comsec wizards, not on lists at all. That could be what keeps them working in the hidden worlds of the successors to young Diffie -- and the Brits silenced by the OSA.
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