“The fundamental question of political philosophy,” wrote Robert Nozick memorably, “is whether there should be any state at all.” A. John Simmons concurs. For him, the task of “justifying the state” must take the following form: we should assume anarchism as a theoretical baseline and demonstrate that there can be at least one state type that is neither immoral nor inadvisable. Justification is...

The aim of this article is to explore how Manuel Rojas thinks about, imagines, and fictionalizes the relationship between humans nature in context a society headed towards modernity, using two unpublished texts from writer’s archive: unfinished novel Astromelia short story “El nino y el choroy”. In both, introduces us characters who, immersed vital culturally-diverse contexts, bond effectively ...

Abstract Early socialism from the second half of 19th century Romania is experiencing a systematic comeback among historians and social scientists. The works Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea, founding father Romanian Marxism, occupy central place in this newfound attention towards origins struggles Romania. This paper addresses Gherea’s interpretation anarchism on par with his doctrine ‘legal socia...

This paper describes in detail a recent smart-card prototype that performs a 20-bit zero-knowledge identification in less than one second on a simple 8-bit microcontroller without any dedicated cryptoengine aboard. A curious property of our implementation is its inherent linear complexity: unlike all the other protocols brought to our knowledge, the overall performance of our prover (computatio...

A new public key encryption scheme, along with several variants, is proposed and analyzed. The scheme and its variants are quite practical, and are proved secure against adaptive chosen ciphertext attack under standard intractability assumptions. These appear to be the first publickey encryption schemes in the literature that are simultaneously practical and provably secure. This paper is a sig...

Modernism’s relation to politics is uncontested. The debate that endures surrounds the nature of the relationship (direct, indirect, or inverse?) and the artist’s role in shaping it, as a deliberate political actor or a medium of socialhistorical forces. Patricia Leighten’s new book, The Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris, is an absorbing and scholarly study t...

Starting with Dining Cryptographers networks (DC-net), several peer-to-peer (P2P) anonymous communication protocols have been proposed. Despite their strong anonymity guarantees none of those has been employed in practice so far: Most fail to simultaneously handle the crucial problems of slot collisions and malicious peers, while the remaining ones handle those with a significant increased late...