From: "Jon Leonard" <jleonard@divcom.umop-ap.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 05:40:35 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: MUD anyone?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9608260847.A346-0100000@pegasus.unicorn.com>
Message-ID: <9608271647.AA22569@divcom.umop-ap.com>
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> Would anyone out there be interested in helping set up a 
> crypto-anarcho-capitalist MUD to play around with some of the social 
> aspects of crypto-anarchy and anarcho-capitalism? I can probably hack 
> together a basic lpmud in a month or two if someone has a machine which 
> it could run on and which could run a mailing list for those involved. 

I've been planning to run a MUD like that, at mud.umop-ap.com port 2121.
I just don't have enough coded to be worth announcing yet.

Which cryptographic primitives should be coded in initially?

Obvious choices are:

Pseudonyms
Anonymous digital cash (issued by any pseudonym, not just "banks")
Public and private keys
Secret sharing
Anonymous broadcast & message pools
Anonymous markets

(ref: Tim May's sig)

What am I missing?  Should there be direct support for Jim Bell's
assasination markets?  It'd provide a means of demonstrating its
ineffectiveness as a means of social control.

I think that for purposes of simulation, it's reasonable to model
cryptographic primitives in a "Trust the server" mode, because you
need to trust the MUD server anyway (unlike a government), and it
puts a much lower load on the CPU.

There's also the question of log policy.  Having run a MUD for a few
years, I want to keep logs for bug detection.  A declared policy that
they aren't released for n years would work though.  Opinions, anyone?

[snip]
> Please send replies to me directly as I'm travelling and consequently off 
> the list. Looks like I'll be on a mad bus trip round New Zealand for most 
> of next month so Net access will be erratic.

Sent to Cypherpunks as well, in case anyone else is interested.

> 	Mark
 
Jon Leonard