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The Sovereign Project (http://sovereign.i2p) has recently developed a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) that enables authentication via the verification of a digital signature provided through a Monero wallet and optionally enables authorization through the verification of a Monero payment.

Successful access via PAM can be constructed to require just a verified digital signature or a verified digital signature as well as the verification of a Monero payment.

The Sovereign Project claims to leverage Proof-of-Power. From their web site:

The Sovereign Project believes that effective cyber security requires an investment of physical power to make cyber attacks cost-prohibitive. Logic alone doesn't suffice, we need to leverage physical power in the form of watts (i.e., electrical power) to defend against attack. The Sovereign Project leverages the power consumption of a proof-of-work blockchain to effectively secure resources defended with the Sovereign protocol, using watts, at very low cost. Currently the Sovereign protocol can leverage more than 68 megawatt hours to secure resources.

The PAM leverages the use of the I2P network access. This is an interesting approach to securing resources using PAM and a privacy coin (Monero).

What is the point of payment? Is it to allow access to a server for payment (i.e. sell server time)? Or is it to add more security than just the signature? If the latter, I don't think it adds security.

Authenticating with unforgeable digital signature verification is a very secure one step process.
Using Monero proof-of-payment to leverage the Monero proof-of-work consensus protocol is an optional second step for authorization to gain access via the PAM.

The proof-of-payment authorization leverages the Monero proof-of-work consensus protocol that secures the Monero network itself.

Monero has been in existence since 2014 and the network has yet to be compromised.

Monero is a cryptocurrency with a market value of around 3.5 billion US dollars in December. Wikipedia provides more details in many languages. In the thread above, part of the website is quoted and I have a question about the introduction, which is written on the website under the heading “Mission”.

sovereign.i2p wrote: To empower individual sovereignty and push back against tyranny.

In today’s world of big-tech and mass surveillance, individuals that seek liberty need privacy. Governments accelerate the number of new laws, always adding more, it’s rare to see laws taken off the books. The effect, essentially, results in the criminalization of everyday life.

It is well known that everyone understands liberty differently and the advertising department usually uses such terms to create associations in the minds of its customers. The I2 Project does this in a similar way, although the naked phrase of a freer society is used, there is deliberately no mention of equality. What do you mean by liberty?

Liberty in conjunction with privacy reads to me like the familiar self-serving form of capitalism, which, like libertarians, is essentially about tax avoidance. Do I see that correctly?

Which laws lead to the criminalization of everyday life? Do these laws justify the term tyranny? I know about the Taliban in Afghanistan, where women are seen as inferior beings and treated like livestock, but I don't think there is any connection. Since this is so self-evident to you, you will have no difficulty in pointing out a handful of laws with appropriate justification to explain them.

At this point, I will shorten it to just three questions so that nobody is overwhelmed and the matter remains manageable for all participants.

q:"It is well known that everyone understands liberty differently and the advertising department usually uses such terms to create associations in the minds of its customers. The I2 Project does this in a similar way, although the naked phrase of a freer society is used, there is deliberately no mention of equality. What do you mean by liberty?"

a:I agree with Oxford Languages definition: "the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views."

q: "Liberty in conjunction with privacy reads to me like the familiar self-serving form of capitalism, which, like libertarians, is essentially about tax avoidance. Do I see that correctly?"
a: I disagree.

q: "Which laws lead to the criminalization of everyday life? Do these laws justify the term tyranny? I know about the Taliban in Afghanistan, where women are seen as inferior beings and treated like livestock, but I don't think there is any connection. Since this is so self-evident to you, you will have no difficulty in pointing out a handful of laws with appropriate justification to explain them."

a: I think a good explanations could be found in Neil Gorsuch's book Over Ruled (a summary can be found at: https://reason.com/2024/10/04/over-ruled/).
Gorsuch is a U.S. Supreme Court justice and in 2019 he stated: "Criminal laws have grown so exuberantly and come to cover so much previously innocent conduct that almost anyone can be arrested for something."

In a recent interview he stated:

"Its unlawful to sing the Star-Spangled Banner in a certain manner in Massachusetts, you can go to prison for that."

"In New Mexico a 7th grade boy was arrested for burping in class."
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sovereign wrote: ↑03 Jan 2025 19:01 […]

I see here a US-American, conservative, who supports the tactics of the Trump/Musk administration as well as the death penalty and is against women's rights to bodily self-determination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Gorsuch
https://law.justia.com/codes/massachusetts/part-iv/title-i/chapter-264/section-9/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/30/albuquerque-boy-arrested-burping

Should we still ask ourselves why participants from all over the world should make their infrastructure available to profit-oriented money makers free of charge? Do we want to encourage envy and greed? Do we want to return to anarcho-capitalist conditions in society? Do we want to be the new haven of black markets with permanent police surveillance of all participants? Or are we expected to deceive, lie to and cheat our fellow human beings?

Lest we misunderstand each other, dear participants, I am in favor of an enlightened anarchic society in which all participants who make I2P, the Peer to Peer network, possible with their equipment and bandwidth are on the same level and equal.

Based on your post, I expected a rush to judgement with bias,that has now been confirmed. I'll leave you with that.