mircea_popescu: now, those 4 cases out of 8 of "10" have equal chances to meet 00, 01, 10, and 11. as a result you will see :

mircea_popescu: let's work with a very simple example. suppose we use two bits, and suppose the plaintext is as follows : 00 appears 1 case out of 8 ; 01 appears 2 cases out of 8 ; 10 appears 4 cases out of 8 and 11 appears one case out of 8. 1+1+2+4=8.

mircea_popescu: this is an operation very close to compression, a sort of crypto-lzw.

mircea_popescu: was also a penguin linked here recently, same idea.

mircea_popescu: do the experiment for yourself, it's really a great entry thing into cryptanalysis.

mircea_popescu: i will then proceed to count the As and the Ws and break your thing to a large degree.

mircea_popescu: mod6 ah. well... negotiable insturment, you know. everyone values it as he values it. there's not exactly a dearth of offerings - notably the reward to prove qmail is buggy was 500. knuth's rewards are a dollar and change., etc

mircea_popescu: in the EP? general scheme of true cryptography, otp occupies a peculiar spot, equivalent to rsa's use of multiplication, where otp uses "multiplication modulo 1" or "multiplication in the binary group" for a º function

mircea_popescu: mod6> i don't think a billion units is lulzy at all. << what is this re ?

mircea_popescu: it DOES decide whether ~anyone~ is a cryptographer or not, however.

mircea_popescu: someone WANTS to be a cryptographer, THAT SOMEONE better be a cryptographer.

mircea_popescu: explain the requirement, offer fame and a little fortune. that's the only one path.

mircea_popescu: neither a nor b.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is a difference between making a boeing for pay and making a cipher for pay.

mircea_popescu: which... i dun recall the last time i used a message longer

mircea_popescu: you have to understand cool is a political concept, much like "declase" in french salon world of 1800.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform finding threads for events after the event is a fun sort of historical game. nevertheless, the events are the events.

mircea_popescu: derp #2 : Nothing. The guy is just a fool who believes that bigger block size is better. He's a very obvious sufferer of the Dunning Kruger effect [wikipedia.org]

mircea_popescu: derp #1 : "What is wrong with existing block ciphers like AES? AES has been in widespread use for over a decade and to the best of my knowledge, there is still no practical attack on it (unless someone has built a working quantum computer and not told anyone about it). Its totally free of patents and IP issues. Its been implemented in a huge variety of hardware and software (including the Intel CPU that I am using to m ☟︎

mircea_popescu: i wish to see place where person in position of management/responsibility makes decision and publicly backs it by plain statement that moore law's a delusion.

mircea_popescu: I think I know what (s)he is talking about - it's similar to this one https://vimeo.com/7125141 [vimeo.com] , and involves MP breaking down in the face of confrontation. Not necessarily crying per se, but he acts like a kid who has been told he can't go out and play until he eats his broccoli. Might even be the same event, but this video was put out by MP and is edited to make MP look good, at least in his own eyes. <<

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if the 100k is a salary, 100 years of that buys you a house where your job is. you denying this ? ☟︎

mircea_popescu: from same person, five minutes later, "Wait. 'Uses a 64 kbyte key' - is he mad? Does he realize the trouble he will have to go through when he has to transport over a network, or do a key agreement on, keys of that size?"

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "- He says current block ciphers suck. Why? It doesn't really become clear from the discussion, which seems to be between two people who have heard a little bit about cryptography, and are trying to outdo each other in what little knowledge they have." ☟︎

mircea_popescu: you can buy the same results from google for ~ 1-300 bucks, and seeing how slashdot has 15 items per first page and apparently a new set daily, the upper bound of its productive value would then be somewhere between 45000 and say 100k per month.

mircea_popescu: 19ish to 14ish let's say, about 19 hours. the net value of being a majorily contested news item on slashdot first page is ~3500 unique visitors, ~4500 pages read for an average of 1.28 (or in practice, using the 1% rule, ~3 people read the news item and left, ~300 people read 3-4 pages each and may be back).

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-02-2016#1397779 << yes, up until mp said fu, EVERYONE said moore's law is a thing. ☝︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-02-2016#1397760 << wasn't it just last year the vc circus was special pleading up and down the ying-yang that there's a horrible unmeetable demand ? ☝︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: nge that. i was actually there. i will say i have seen no judge, crown, or family services member with the best interest of the children in mind (in this case). and that is a hard fact.

mircea_popescu: "i can only say so much for a few reasons. first allan is my friend. we dont agree on many points but this does not mean i care to make any assumptions about his beliefs on law and governance or his personal life. second there is a publication ban on things which i hold first hand knowledge of. i belive those cases were sealed as a cover up of what actually went on. there is nothing anyone will write here that will cha

mircea_popescu: sorta like in the early colonies it was ok to say "tomatoes are poisonous" and nobody was supposed to notice that "Eating off lead plates because you wanna be as cool as the europeans eating off silver but are poor and stupid is still a bad plan".

mircea_popescu: "agreed. i like allan as a friend. to meet him you would probably like him too. he isnt nuts in general like many are. i have sat in on a few court dates that cant be brought up on here. allan and his family got shafted. that put al in a hard spot and drove his theories to what we have now. there was no reason for his kids to be taken. if there was i would gladly say so. in a way the courts created allan the vexatious.

mircea_popescu: well it suffers from the problem of bored waitress (shop girl / whore / whatever), they get into these fixations vaguely reminescent of "la pie a une manie : elle volle tout ce qui brille"

mircea_popescu: so we all sat there with tables playing "poker" for a while.

mircea_popescu: i played a game of poker with some local whores last night, busted my million within an hour.

mircea_popescu: as a result romania decides to legalize prostitution.

mircea_popescu: in vaguely related lulz : romanian women are sane ; as a result they're all over europe fucking the shit out of everything that moves ; as a result butthurt euroheads don't want to extend schengen zone to romania unless it "controils the problem" ;

mircea_popescu: what the fuck, whore budget for us tv sports team should be in the hundred mil a year sorta thing.

mircea_popescu: "thousands of dollars" ? earlier "electrical engineer" derp apparently made "low six figures", ie, 1/100 of what a house costs. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: it is mostly a black kids' thing, neh ?

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-02-2016#1397707 << curious if anyone knows how this looked back when the us was an ascending rather than a falling star. say 1880, or 1950. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: god forbid everyone in wash dc goes "fuck you, fix the office policies or else ima be a carpenter"

mircea_popescu: kinda like the soviet equivalent, "oh, so you got kicked out of your party commission thing ? no, you can't have a job. because fuck you, that's why"

mircea_popescu: this whole "overqualified" thing is a very peculiar usg instrument of lizardlet punishment.

mircea_popescu: "After more than 20 years as an electronics engineer, Pete Edwards reached the low six-figure pay level. Now, as he looks for a job following a layoff, he finds that salary success a burden."

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that seems like a reference to something in trilema.

mircea_popescu: why the fuck would i want to send people to a landing page "aboput me" where someone else advertises other fucking idiots.

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo wanted to show you what i see, but archive.is hanged for 30s + on GEThttps://176651799.log.optimizely.com/event?a=176651799&d=176651799&y=false&src=js&s177247141=false&s177238534=gc&s177274055=direct&tsent=1454774294.31&n=https%3A%2F%2Fabout.me%2F&u=oeu1454774294298r0.48049287940375507&wxhr=true&time=1454774294.309&f=2389180153&g=&cx2=a0df6d22

mircea_popescu: quoted here because my spamthing identified it as legit, and i had do to a triple taker and im STILL not convinced this is not a spam script.

mircea_popescu: so in this sense, something like "gpu-powered ipad game, 100ms delayed" is a great competition for cable tv

mircea_popescu: basically [a segment of] gaming has turned into "gimme a minimally interactive tv show"

mircea_popescu: even the notion of "pvp" has been perverted into "pick a team out of this list and cpu will play it for you - thereby you're attacking another player"

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes & his hipster friends are happy to wait 30 s for a webmail screen to load

mircea_popescu: there's a large segment of idiots that moved to "eye candy slowly" paradigm