asciilifeform: the conclusion asciilifeform draws from the continued existence of emptyblox and oldcoinfreetxen is 'most tx are usg-authored spamola'. other folx - can draw other conclusions, if they want.
asciilifeform: ( the cost, to the attacker pools, of tape-painting tx, is supposed to be 'they forgo fees from actual people', but there is very little pressure from actual-people. ergo this 'cost' is ~0, i suspect. )
asciilifeform: trinque: they are paying, mainly, into own pockets
asciilifeform: 'linux suxx because you will be covered in shit, that we made sure to smear on every floor time and furniture inside it, it should be more like microshit'
asciilifeform: 'We need LC_ALL here to be sure that the date will take exactly three words in the output of ls.' << this is exactly the plasma tv raft from mircea_popescu's article with the crazy woman
asciilifeform: somebody help d00d install winblowz, apparently he had problem..?
asciilifeform: ' It would be much easier if we used JSON or XML for system configs. Or maybe some binary format. Especially for those configs that are constantly read by different programs. As a result, they need a good read rate (it’s higher in binary formats).' << gold.
asciilifeform: 'As we’ve already seen in the example with /etc/passwd, the widespread use of plain text can lead to performance problems. ' << and dynamically loaded crapolade, orc-glyphs-in-everything, dbus, et al -- don't, apparently ?!
asciilifeform: classic prbism -- where is the proof that this does not create a phantom n+1st 'signer' ?
asciilifeform: aaaapparently it is supposed to be homomorphic over multisigulation. i.e. you can glom multiple sigs of same string into 'one value'.
asciilifeform: oooh hey hey hey lbj. i finally found out why prb folx like schnorr.☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 0 provable improvements on otp.
asciilifeform: aaaaaanything, anything to avoid handing giving back the yet-unfucked-once pig back to the late von neumann, and going back to sweeping airport floor.
asciilifeform: 'based on these unproven conjectures, and one or more unproven conjectures on which our logic relies, and one or more circularly-defined conditions, this scheme is secure, for our toy definition of secure that we will not share'
asciilifeform: but the result of reading this (spoiler!) for asciilifeform is usually mega-disappointment
asciilifeform: 'toy crypto auth is slightly easier to forge than the usual five minutes', noose at eleven.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i dun even grasp how this is a vuln, it isn't as if 802.11 has rsa-authenticated endpoints to begin with
asciilifeform: incidentally if you can prove that trapdoors exist, you've necessarily proven that P!=NP.
asciilifeform: but this is small comfort, just like to say that honest undertaker will at least make sure you are actually dead before burying
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the few honest cryptographers that exist, will prove that your arse is staked on ~this here~ set of unproven conjectures, and nothing else.
asciilifeform: much of academitard 'cryptography' is an elaborate dance around the fact that nobody knows, publicly, of any solid axioms that were unknown to von neumann.☟︎
asciilifeform: upstack : ben_vulpes : the 'triangle' is aka 'trapdoor function', and it is not known whether they actually exist. ( folx go around pretending that they exist. does not make it so. )
asciilifeform: logicgate-poverty, according to him, prevented asymmetric crypto from taking off in su, and so this ^ was the obsession. for a while.
asciilifeform: ( according to maslennikov, kgb directorate of crypto struggled with the fundamental boojum and simply gave up, and turned to turd polishing )
asciilifeform: what you want to prove (and nobody has, for any system) is that the necessary work is equivalent to brute force guess.
asciilifeform: so it is always a matter of avg case.
asciilifeform: and the d00d who does ~not~ know the key, has a nonzero P of guessing whole thing !
asciilifeform: however mircea_popescu , this is not quite right, the 'lower bound' is always O(1) for the d00d who knows the key !
asciilifeform: aha, hardest-case is ~entirely uninteresting in crypto
asciilifeform: however the triangle is imaginary, because -- as you will learn from the linked thread tree earlier (and not from any public literature ! elsewhere afaik) -- we know about complexity classes , as discovered by cook et al ; but we do NOT know of any means of generating ~instances~ of problems falling into given class with ~guaranteed~ average-case hardness.
asciilifeform: ok i cannot resist answering ben_vulpes . because he will find answer in encyclopaedia, but it will not be an actual answer, but only a thought-extinguisher.☟︎
asciilifeform: the folx who could -- any day of the week -- give the order to have all 'migrants' met with flamethrowers - answer to exactly usg dos sewing circle
asciilifeform: 'we can't have it? aite, scuttling nao'
asciilifeform: well sorta why usg is setting off the demolition charges (the syrian horde) in eu
asciilifeform: how's that? they wanted the d00d out of the fr election -- and he was out.
