Parking zKal

I'm parking zKal. Here are my lessons learned. The best place to start is Brewster Kahle's feedback to me when I was in Berlin: "This isn't just a cryptography toy for tech events. Activists need this. If they see it, they'll use it for real. You have to get it right." Then he asked really good questions about the security model — how the ZK proofs worked, where trust assumptions lived, what happened if the server was compromised, what happened if an attacker faked events. I loved the hard questions. I couldn't stop smiling on the inside. Finally someone understood what I'd been working on for a year! And it was someone who knew what worked - the founder of Internet Archive and Alexa Internet. This was an unconference session c-base — a spaceship discovered under Berlin, turned into a hackerspace. The first time I was there, I saw the massive array of LED-lit recycled bottles, radiating warmth. Later I noticed the tea station. Community infrastructure. Care. Since then, it's felt like…