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mircea_popescu: britknee right he is, somehow slipped
through
the cracks. sorry for
the delay ; but it's done now.
TrixxC: hi am here
to register for
tits
avgjoe: ok
thanks, so after someone rates me deedbot allows
to up me on demand?
mircea_popescu: what's it help you
to know it's "0.1 bits per
tb ~on average~"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it can't be a debit like
that, because
the main unknown is
the approach.
avgjoe: hello, can i ask why deedbot doesn't send me
the challange
to solve? instead it
tells me
that i should not up myself
a111: Logged on 2018-04-12 18:10 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-12#1797142 << understand,
the discussion here is re cryptographic hardness, not mathematical hardness ; as discussed otherplaces in
the logs,
the mathematical notion of difficulty is "what's
the absolute hardest case
this problem can yield", because
they want
to offer maximal flop guarantees ; cryptographically it is kinda opposite : what's
the LOWEST difficulty a problem in
this class may yield
BingoBoingo: Now,
there's also "alfajores integrals" where a birdseed paste is smashed between
two birdseed wafers, but
those cost ~70 pesos whereas alfajores verdaderos costs 20-30 pesos
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes:
That
think was
the commercial item
that defines
the standard
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo:
that
thing was way
too way over
the
top
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> i have been seduced into liking sugary delights! << It's scarcely been more
than a month since a fractional alfajore gave you sugar shock
mircea_popescu: . because
they want
to put a MINIMUM floor in. so
to a large degree mathematical discussions of hardness are not cryptographically useful.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-12#1797142 << understand,
the discussion here is re cryptographic hardness, not mathematical hardness ; as discussed otherplaces in
the logs,
the mathematical notion of difficulty is "what's
the absolute hardest case
this problem can yield", because
they want
to offer maximal flop guarantees ; cryptographically it is kinda opposite : what's
the LOWEST difficulty a problem in
this class may yield
☝︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-04-12 16:13 zx2c4: but even hardness of factoring... how hard is
this actually? what number
theoretic advances are right around
the corner?
a111: Logged on 2018-04-12 16:12 zx2c4:
things like RSA boil down
to number
theory problems. but
that's in a sense scarier
than
the set of problems
that good block ciphers
tend
to boil down
to. because it means
that
those primitives have lots of _structure_, and generally structure is something
that can be exploited. just look at all
the amazing and fantastic attacks on
things with structure. so just boiling down
to a [currently considered] "hard problem" doesn't provide as much solace
mircea_popescu: no, and compiled
to 40kb, it's clear from
this and plenty other signs
the dood has
the right ideas in his head.
mircea_popescu: these are yet
too high level matters
to be practically approached by
this "here's an impl" method.
ckang: 'pull request are always welcome' :) as
they say
mircea_popescu: the line 332 explosion is a fine example of
this as any could be had.
ben_vulpes: i was halfway expecting
to see
the classic machinegeneratedliquishit objections
a111: Logged on 2018-04-12 15:48 zx2c4: our
two x25519 C implementations (32bit and 64bit) are actually generated by
theorem proving software, so
that we're sure
they dont contain any errors
ben_vulpes: in other modern scotchguardlifeamericana,
these "100% cotton!" napkins are clearly coated with some heinous anti-absorbent "nanotech". yes, works
to wipe crumbs off
toddlerface but holyfuck is aggressively and annoyingly nonabsorbent.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes all
the Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from x
thing does is lock out by ip ; it's not even generated by wp itself ; it can be implemented any way, iptables, csf, whatever.
ben_vulpes: aok so
the Order/Allow can probably be swapped for
the 'modern' Require styles
mircea_popescu: it redirects missing file references into index.php ;
that's how it does
the url replace
thing.
mircea_popescu: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d <<
this sort of
thing.
ben_vulpes has yet
to put rubber
to road on
this, still researching
ben_vulpes: huh danielpbarron mentioned
to me
that it writes
the permalinks into .htaccess,
this is not so?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes wp doesn't actually care how .htaccess is implemented ; only
that it works.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu:
the .htaccess files included with/generated by mpwp include
the `Allow` incantation, which is not a
thing in apache 2.4;
trilema purports
to run on 2.4.16; can
the Order/Allow incantations be replaced with
the 2.4-style Require?
mircea_popescu: generally
the alfajor as a commercial item is
two wafers, ddl in betrween, whole dipped in hard chocolate.
ben_vulpes: experiments from
the kitchen, im sure more variants with chocolate will appear as soon as i mention
the idea
mircea_popescu: hey, i didn't
think i even liked girls, as a 14yo. people get strange ideas in
their heads.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you should see
the britt chocolate covered macadamia nuts.
ben_vulpes: well
they are a far cry from
the mango gelato of mircea_popescu's haremfactory but goshdarn
these alfajores are magical with coffee in
the morning
mircea_popescu: anyway, guy got a bitcoin, meaning he can put however many more hours into
the
thing you're using, so wins all around.
ckang: still
trying
to soak it in
ckang: lol i
try and connect people ;)
mircea_popescu: word. you're building quite
the diplomatic reputation for yourself, you know
that ?
ckang: hey nice glad
to see zx2c4 made it in
zx2c4: alright,
ttyl guys
zx2c4: ooo scoped pointers.
thats nice
mircea_popescu: zx2c4 and
the good news is, linus permitted ada modules before.
zx2c4: i need
to head out for a bit now
mircea_popescu: actually, most crap is not even permitted. see all
the pragmas.
zx2c4: so most checking is runtime instead of compile
time
then?
a111: Logged on 2018-04-12 17:20 zx2c4: you guys have invented lots of
things here
zx2c4: linus has never been so happy about other languages in
the kernel. for example, he rejected a C++ layer many years ago
zx2c4: i dont have enough exposure
to ada
to say for certain. how come?
zx2c4: unlikely
that'd make it upstream if i did wireguard
that way, but neat
that
that's possible
mircea_popescu: that's a perl impl of a v
tool by mod6 ; everyone is invited
to make
their own v
tools.
zx2c4: it's written in C because its in
the linux kernel, which is written in C
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did we ever establish why he wrote
the
thing in c ?
mircea_popescu: the idea with it is
that patches must be a) clearly assigned
to a responsible key and b) well read. actually, not putatively a la ers's
trillion dead fish eyes.
zx2c4: you guys have invented lots of
things here
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, as
to
the other one : v is
the republican... well many
things, but also works as a versioning system. here's a pretty picture
to help
the notion along :
http://btcbase.org/patches << you can select from
the drop menu
to
the left, see vaqrious
trees extant. you can click on any item
to see
the patch it represents.
mircea_popescu: and saying "multiples of k : 0, 8, 16" is NOT an enumeration of "similar
things". 0 is dissimilar
to everything else.