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asciilifeform: ah the recantation
asciilifeform: or who
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2016/please-stop-using-dns-already-and-other-considerations/#footnote_1_65060 << him ?
asciilifeform: waiwat
asciilifeform: this ^ is quite exactly a description of the 'problem solvers' in 'piddly recantation', e.g., 'docker'
asciilifeform: e your living room. The correct solution in the case of the retarded girlfriend obviously is turning off the main and beating her black and blue, rather than entertaining her idiocy. Similarly in the case of the retarded Internet, the correct solution is turning off the main and beating these idiots black and blue, rather than entertaining their idiocy.'
asciilifeform: 'The situation is somewhat akin to a retarded girlfriend trying to flood your apartment, that not only opens all the faucets and stops all the drains, but also takes the "extremely clever" measure of puncturing the water pipes, so she can then preciously inform you that "turning off the faucets won't help" and you must work with her to somehow create a raft out of your widescreen TV so as to navigate the marshy terrain that used to b ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: aha!
asciilifeform: the one where 'removing the plug, or closing the water, is not ever to be considered an option, instead you are expected to build a raft from the flat tv'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re ^ - where was that trilema piece with the plugged bathtub ?
asciilifeform falls down
asciilifeform: Two Generals Problem << aaaaahaha
asciilifeform: http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=blob;f=dirmngr/dns-stuff.c;h=191719e932e8995b7876fcffd0ff809c18f47334;hb=refs/heads/STABLE-BRANCH-2-2#l102 << why is there even a 'tor mode' ?
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/uqRcV << soooo the shitstain knows no restraint
asciilifeform: )
asciilifeform: (does anyone find it interesting that modern gpg uses ~same mpi implementation as dark age pgp, but with massaged function names ('mp_' vs 'mpi_') ?
asciilifeform: dark age pseudobitcoin.
asciilifeform: https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Digital_money/?f=magic_money.announce.txt << pretty lulzy.
asciilifeform: because i consider mpi bugs to be a thing of interest.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was trying to learn the answer to that.
asciilifeform: http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~woodcock/cmsc482/proj1/magmoney.html << possibly this.
asciilifeform: ?
asciilifeform: anyone remember what was 'magic money' >
asciilifeform: ' ... I tried this on two different platforms with two different byte orders. In particular, I used a mips-ultrix and sun386i. The results, are the same, and show that there is no problem with PGP 2.3a, or, at least, I cannot reproduce your bug. Sorry.'
asciilifeform: Derek Atkins <warlord () MIT ! EDU>
asciilifeform: http://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=85281708902680&w=2 << the only reply.
asciilifeform: d, so there was no way to repeat the error. I set up a batch file to repeatedly cycle coins...'
asciilifeform: 'Someone please prove me wrong, but I think there is a bug in the function mp_modexp_crt (RSA decryption and signing) in PGP23a's MPI library. Attached to this message is a program which demonstrates the bug. While testing Magic Money for lingering bugs, the client gave the error "Coin from server has bad signature!" I tried again with different coins, and the program worked. The proto.dat file had been cleared as the coins were rea
asciilifeform: circa '94!
asciilifeform: http://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=85281708902679&w=2
asciilifeform: in other lulz,
asciilifeform: lotsa weird on the site (e.g., crypto-in-php etc.) but it was, at least until recently, ~his own~, and not 'komyoonity'.
asciilifeform: 'In summer of 2000, I had a look at the new key format PGP had introduced. In Europe a number of researchers voiced concerns about the new ADK feature that were routinely being ignored in the US, the home of PGP. This ignorance motivated me to look closer into the new PGP version and I discovered a serious problem with the way additional keys could be added without a user's consent. '
asciilifeform: (who else was ?)
asciilifeform: in 2003.
asciilifeform: and, picture, a man distributing signed src.
asciilifeform: https://senderek.ie/research/pcp/release/pcp-10.tar.gz << whole set. and pretty interesting read.
asciilifeform: who, for all i know, is in valhalla's halls now.
asciilifeform: senderek.
asciilifeform: ('pcp' was an early attempt, it appears, at a stateless and rsa-only pgp replacement)
asciilifeform: and https://senderek.ie/research/pcp/release/read-pgpkey
asciilifeform: e.g., https://senderek.ie/research/pcp/release/pure.py
asciilifeform: https://senderek.ie/research/pcp/release << was very interesting fella. where is he now ?
asciilifeform: (at one point there was, they were asked to at least find the various states on a pre-drawn map.)
asciilifeform: there is no 'geography' subject in their primary school.
asciilifeform: i shit thee not, even if you say, e.g., 'moscow', they will drop it somewhere near ankara or worse
asciilifeform: i did, it was a depressing exercise an' i stopped.
asciilifeform: ( and the ones that ~could~... who were they ? old army officers ? )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when you toured usa, how many folks could find your home town in the atlas ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: typical usaschwitz inmate is isolated enough that, e.g., the 'flying pistol copter' fella on youtube, was 'russian' enough to satisfy.
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/Jge7p << meanwhile the graphologists, astrologers, haruspicists, are busy busy bees!111
asciilifeform: with was (and afaik still is) the google faux-usenet thing.
asciilifeform: but asciilifeform's outings among the heathens, happened in heathendom.
asciilifeform: plenty
asciilifeform: $s urbit
asciilifeform: '“That needs to proven before we take anything coming from that account as actually coming from the mouth of Edward Snowden, the person.”'
asciilifeform: https://coldwardaily.com/2016/08/17/shadow-brokers-nsa-exploits-doubts-about-edward-snowdens-tweets << meanwhile somebody asks the obvious q. ☟︎
asciilifeform: https://twitter.com/hanno/status/765545176018354176 << guess who likes to play victim now.
asciilifeform: n the world could not save you. On the other hand, if the regime is weak (as suggested by the fact that it bowed to Bitcoin), these things are quite unnecessary.' << asciilifeform's q to mr mold.
asciilifeform: 'CY, I've long admired your work, but pray answer me this: why on earth did you accept $millions in kleptocrat funding? How could this possibly serve the long-term interests of Urbit users? Now the same folks who ruined the Net - and virtually everything else that was ever good and bright - have a voting share! Or do I misunderstand? And if a strong USG were to take a dislike to Urbit, all the KYC clerks, bean-counters, and lawyers i
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i think that was all of it.
asciilifeform: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/urbit-dev/PvXo1t7uNrY/RL7DLpg1v9QJ << continued.
asciilifeform: ^ mega-thread
asciilifeform: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/urbit-dev/4B12WpF1rL0/hYF3YPuqvR8J << 'we dun want to make a bitcoin! usg will gas us'
asciilifeform: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/urbit-dev/PvXo1t7uNrY/ik5e-9b-cNwJ << the sale itself.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: aesop
asciilifeform: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/urbit-dev/utp3H7F78so/Dt24fpiT3xcJ << part of it
asciilifeform: where i finally barfed, decisively
asciilifeform: there was also a lengthy googlegroup thread
asciilifeform: 3 - http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1390 - postmortem
asciilifeform: 2 - http://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-programming-from.html?showComment=1263570771214#c6454142774827414532 << linked from same, pre-release thread
asciilifeform: 1 - http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1352 << the sale ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, 1sec
asciilifeform: craig wright rolls in his grave
asciilifeform: 'The source provided a military award as proof of his past employment, and multiple former intelligence sources who reviewed the award for Motherboard said it looks legitimate.'
asciilifeform: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/former-nsa-staffers-rogue-insider-shadow-brokers-theory << in other 'proof' lelz
asciilifeform: in unrelated lulz, https://asciinema.org
asciilifeform: f(n) such that n is last bit of timer when it first powered on, or what.
asciilifeform: (from the mexican routers or what it was.)
asciilifeform: i bet there's an algebraic trick that will yield ALL of these divisors.
asciilifeform: (i've been shaping a mental picture of what kind of rng idiocy could lead to such a thing, to no avail)
asciilifeform: these seem to occur in clusters of no moar than 2-3
asciilifeform: hm
asciilifeform: $s 94498898625323854064565881858724834160435948913137983974021999533025286133157
asciilifeform: lel
asciilifeform: jurov: can i find out nondestructively ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dun work on pyrex
asciilifeform: jurov: and how do i know what i get ?
asciilifeform: entirely other product.
asciilifeform: lead glass != borosilicate.
asciilifeform: but here - it is largely absent.
asciilifeform: jurov: i have nfi what is sold in jurovlandia. perhaps it is genuine borosilicate, or perhaps just overpriced glass.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2014-08-27#811154 << see also naggum. ☝︎
asciilifeform: (the significance of the shoe is often lost on western folk)
asciilifeform: shoe - yes
asciilifeform: but obummer, banana ?
asciilifeform: i can see bush-II remembering the grenade in tbilisi
asciilifeform: but who remembers today.
asciilifeform: it's a passing grade.
asciilifeform: mega-imagination.