Featured Articles and Writings of J. Orlin Grabbe
Digital Finance
A Guide to Homepage Digital Cash Articles
Read this first for background
Digital Cash and the Future of Money
Appeared as “Introduction to Digital Cash” in Liberty
(July 1998) and in the SIRS Renaissance data base (1999).
Concepts in Digital Cash
Basic concepts necessary to get started.
Digital Cash and the Regulators
We gonna regulate, just as soon as we figure out what it is.
The Mathematical Ideas Behind Digital Cash
Speech to Libertarian Party of Colorado.
Internet Payment Schemes, Part 1
Secure credit card systems. iKP, SET, EMV, CyberCash, First Virtual, FBOI, BankNet, Open Financial Exchange.
Internet Payment Schemes, Part 2
Adventures in Prague. Debt-Credit systems. NetCheque, Netbill, and CyberCoin.
Internet Payment Schemes, Part 3
Digital cash systems. NetCash, Mondex, & Digicash ecash.
Cryptography and Number Theory for Digital Cash
A tutorial.
‘Stefan Brands’ System of Digital Cash
A digital cash system with real privacy. Consistency between the on-line & off-line systems.
Digital Signatures Illustrated
A tutorial.
Smart Cards and Private Currencies
The technology of Hayek’s dream.
Privacy and Cryptology
The End of Ordinary Money, Part 1
How Big Brother took over the financial system.
The End of Ordinary Money, Part 2
Your banker is a snitch. Money laundering law & digital cash.
The World Financial Police Attack Anonymity
We want to know where your money is and what you are doing with it.
Another Whack Against GAK
The government’s grip on cryptology slips.
Plot to Spy on Banks Outlined in White House Email
Memo from 1986 details NSC/DOJ plot to spy on banks.
Michael Riconosciuto on Encryption
Comments from architect of the PROMIS backdoor.
Microsoft’s “NSA Backdoor”
An NSA backdoor? Probably not, but Microsoft “security” is clearly a myth.
How Secure is America’s Nuclear Arsenal?
Public key cryptography and nuclear weapons.
NSA, Crypto AG, and the Iraq-Iran War
How the NSA bugged international cryptography software.
Clipper Chip Banking
Sandia National Laboratories create non-anonymous “anonymity.”
Letter from Bill Payne Regarding Cryptography at Sandia
Digital Signatures Illustrated
A tutorial.
The DES Algorithm Illustrated
A tutorial.
Cryptography and Number Theory for Digital Cash
A tutorial.
The Wassenaar Invasion of Privacy
Global agreement on cryptography restriction.
Intelink
The network linking US spook agencies.
The Digital Monetary Trust, Part 1
Anonymous banking based on cryptography, not bankers & lawyers.
The Digital Monetary Trust, Part 2
The mathematical details of the anonymous banking system.
Louis Freeh Spies on Bill Clinton
How to exploit the hole in PGP.
The Function of the Drug War
Economics dictates that failure will always be the criterion of success.
The DSA Flaw in Open PGP
This article explains the flaw and also gives you a Java cryptanalysis program so you can exploit the flaw yourself.
The Gold Market
The Gold Market, Part 1
Gold in the international financial system. The London Gold Fixing.
The Gold Market, Part 2
Spot gold trading. The London Bullion Market Association.
The Gold Market, Part 3
Gold lease and libor rates. The forward price of gold. Gold swaps.
The Gold Market, Part 4
The World Trade Center bombing and the gold market. Gold futures. Exchange for physicals.
The Gold Market, Part 5
Gold FRAs. Gold interest-rate swaps. Gold interest-rate guarantees.
The Gold Market, Part 6
Gold options. Options as insurance contracts.
Encryption by Example
Simple Java Programs
Understand it by doing it yourself.
Quantum Articles
Articles available at Archive Org
The holographic principle is a simple consequence of the divergence theorem: PDF
The holographic principle is a simple consequence of the divergence theorem: PS
Misc. Articles and Essays
Jack Parsons & the Curious Origins of the American Space Program
Part 1-22 by the Magician
In Praise of Chaos
Speech given to the Eris Society in August 1993. Since reprinted in Liberty
(March 1994) and the SIRS Renaissance electronic data base (1995).
Eloge du Chaos
French translation of “In Praise of Chaos”
Cuba de mi Amor
Music to your ears.
The Asian Financial Crisis in Perspective
Appeared in The Laissez Faire City Times, Vol 1 No. 5, Nov. 29, 1997.
Memories of Pasadena
A personal memoir. Appeared in Laissez Faire City Times, Vol 5, No 2, Jan. 8, 2001.
A Derivative Life
A personal memoir. Appeared in Laissez Faire City Times, Vol 5, No 15, April 9, 2001.
The Function of the Drug War
Why the drug war succeeds by its failures.
News of Laissez Faire City
Creating things, including software.
Some Further News of Laissez Faire City
It there sanity left in the world after Sept. 11, 2001?
The Digital Future in Dubai
I have seen the future, and it’s by the Persian Gulf.
Oud, in a Smoke-Filled Room
A night out in Dubai.
When Osama Bin Ladin Was Tim Osman
The secret history of Osama Bin Ladin’s U.S. tour.
The Monkey’s Paw
Getting what you wish for.
Louis L’Amour
Empathy with a great writer.
Short Stories
Keys
Published in Laissez Faire City Times, Vol 2, No 34, Oct 19, 1998.
Agrarian Life
Published in Laissez Faire City Times, Vol 2, No 35, Oct 26, 1998.
A Hundred Eighty Dollars
Published in Laissez Faire City Times, Vol 2, No 36, Nov. 2, 1998.
Karma Accountant
Problems in spiritual reckoning. Published in Liberty (August 1993)
Cover Girl
Published in Laissez Faire City Times (November 1997).
The Hat
How to Survive in the East Village. Appeared in Art Times (November 1992).
Connections
The relationship between sex and quantum mechanics. Generated some fan mail from physicists. First appeared in Beet #6 (Spring 1992).
Feed the Children
Saving the world and saving oneself. Published in Liberty (May 1995).
Dolphin Man
Published in Laissez Faire City Times, Vol 3, no 40, Oct. 11, 1999.
The Age of the Feuilleton
Published in Laissez Faire City Times, Vol 3, no 42, Oct. 25, 1999.
Waiting for Gödel
Published in Laissez Faire City Times, Vol 3, no 46, Nov. 29, 1999.
The Optimal Number of Criminals
Published in Liberty (May 1992). Published in Laissez Faire City Times, Vol 5, no 37, Sept. 3, 2001.
Strange Loops
Published in Laissez Faire Electronic Times, Vol 1, no 19, June 24, 2002.
