asciilifeform: ~how~ it will be achieved, is still an open question.
asciilifeform: the ~aimed~ endgame, we already knew in 1990s, Official Microshit Linux, with all of the idiocies in one pot, and nothing else will boot on new comp, because signing key in fritz chip.
asciilifeform: and yes, apparently microshit implemented a turd that takes ~none of the commands eaten by actual curl OR wget, but is symlinked to BOTH names.
asciilifeform: a: 'We're not saying here that this isn't a change we can investigate, but per our governance model we need to have a conversation around it. The impact of this change would be far-reaching, and it's not one we can make lightly.'
asciilifeform: q: 'You adding them was "a breaking change" to people who were used to using curl and wget from their command lines. No sane person would use those alises anyway since your replacements for curl and wget aren't working anywhere near like the original curl and wget command line tools. These aliases are only making the life harder of the users who actually want the real tools and they don't do anything good for those who don't care for
asciilifeform: a: 'We are rejecting this PR as it introduces "Unacceptable Changes", see our breaking change contract. If you disagree with this resolution, you will need to start an RFC. Note that our RFC process currently states only team members may create a new RFC. Our intent is to open this up to the community at large, we'll be updating that repo very soon to clarify.'☟︎
asciilifeform: q: 'remove curl and wget aliases #1901. They block use of the commonly used command line tools without providing even an attempt to offer the same functionality. They serve no purpose for PowerShell users but cause confusion and problems to existing curl and wget users.'
asciilifeform: (witness, even the '2 minutes per key' was rather too long to be of use.)
asciilifeform: if phuctor took 4 yrs/key, it would not be of much interest.
asciilifeform: if crypto-academia were something like a going concern, rather than elaborate circle wank, we might actually have had one.
asciilifeform: and i'd personally love a deterministic test that doesn't take 4 years of cpu for a 2048-bit mod.
asciilifeform: there are other probabilistic tests, which also converge.
asciilifeform: i.e. there is always a - calculable - chance that your result bit uncorrectedly flips right before you read it.
asciilifeform: it also helps to remember that there is no such actual thing as a fully deterministic algo for a physical machine.
asciilifeform: 'The very fact that the check for whether the number 9965468763136528274628451 is prime ( in Table 5.3 ) took as much as around 70 minutes shows how inefficient it is.'
asciilifeform: re, aks, if mircea_popescu can't be arsed to wade through the linked piece,
asciilifeform: 'oh we can't have keygen take a week, and besides, who will sit and wiggle the mouse.'
asciilifeform: aks isn't a hog because of entropy-eating
asciilifeform: the ~implementation~ of the latter in gpg - is other question entirely.
asciilifeform: (interest in the subj is slim, on account of miller-rabin probabilistic test provably converging - i.e. probability of catastrophic failure can be made smaller than probability of machine flattened by asteroid the same night)☟︎
asciilifeform: aha, the symmetric key for ciphering the privkey for storage.
asciilifeform: incidentally, mr. lolcow just gave away, unwittingly, another gpg laugh - recall what else comes out of rng when you generate key, after the primes ?
asciilifeform: 'i was there, i did it!' -- al gore, 9/12/01
asciilifeform: (incidentally i have nfi whether gnu patch util will apply a patch that simply 'FALSE'-s a deleted file, without the minusola.)
asciilifeform: mod6: but in the case of vdiff, there is no use for it, it simply makes patch unreadable.
asciilifeform: mod6: in traditional diff, turning a deleted turd into a massive ball of minus is arguably necessary, to prevent patch from applying to arbitary item
