asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: linked piece does not require much brain, fortunately, it is about the simplest publickey sig algo ever devised
asciilifeform: at least partly the purpose of this piece is to make the reader understand that his household is short on rng bitz.
asciilifeform: lamport did not specify this, but imho it is obvious.
asciilifeform: note that we hash the raw random bits, and not their ascii representations. this may seem unnecessary but we do not want any known structure in the inputs to H.
asciilifeform: many folks would rather go to african doctor than american. and i can't blame'em.
asciilifeform: Officially Indigent is another thing.
asciilifeform: prescription-only. so as to make the buyers come in for regular 'doctor visit' which costs a few hundy (paid by usg if you're Officially indigent, by hmo if you're a salaried wretch, and by your own pocket if you're neither.)
asciilifeform: part of the 'health management' racket.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i went around looking for 'bios reverser' sites, realized that the community of actual people actually working on subj -- at least in public -- has shrunk to the size of a walnut.
asciilifeform: everything else is kept down artificially, via agro subsidies etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they have this strategy where all of the bid-up/sheepshaving happens in one particular racket, housing
asciilifeform: see mircea_popescu's old article where 'if i get a hundy, i get a hundy, but if everyone gets one - it is a disaster'
asciilifeform: when this fails, and it will, there ~will~ be ru-style hyperinflation, as the selfsame chumps use their megabux to bid up the cost of basic necessities
asciilifeform: e.g., uppity salaryfolk getting their dough deposited into non-irs-controlled bank
asciilifeform: much of what passes for 'capital control' in usa is to prevent bezzleusd leakage
asciilifeform: and when they stop doing this, no amount of policing will move them, no.
asciilifeform: most folks stop at the red light without there being such a thing as a police car for miles. internal policeman, inside head.
asciilifeform: it's rather like to say 'traffic police never works'
