asciilifeform: afaik we do not have any theoretical support whatsoever for the strength of any known hash algo.
asciilifeform: (the depressing part is that the way it ~is~ established, is claude shannon's otp paper, and it happened exactly ONCE, afaik, to date.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu knows that this is not how crypto strength is established.
asciilifeform: eh folks have been 'putting it in things' since '80s
asciilifeform: the unfortunate bit is that 'hash research' is presently not even yet at alchemy level, and stuck somewhere between haruspicy and astrology.
asciilifeform: the only aspect of rsa that actually takes palpable time on a modern box is key gen.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'rsa the actual message back and forth' << not same. for instance, if you have the pump going at all times, it can be cache-local.
asciilifeform: quite like what, e.g., gpg does, but in ~batches~ ahead of time.
asciilifeform: which is then tapped into when actually sending payloads.
asciilifeform: PeterL: mircea_popescu's original suggestion was to transfer properly random messages, via rsa, continuously, thereby keeping a supply of otp warm on both sides
asciilifeform: we have this right here in usaschwitz, if house confiscated as part of 'dope warz' (requires no conviction in any court) chumper ~also~ gets to keep the mortgage.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how were the particular kulaks picked ?
asciilifeform: in other noose, krebs ( http://krebsonsecurity.com ) has definitely been awake since i wrote to him (he has new material on his site) but never answered re phuctor/khadeer/etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 100k is a colonel's pay
asciilifeform: does their collective pay even add up to $B, or the cost of 1 magic airplane.
asciilifeform: mats: i'd be rather surprised if missing $T had anything to do with soldiers' pay.
asciilifeform found that it is ~impossible to visit a museum of whatever kind in washington, or beach in delaware/md coast, without hearing spoken ru in the crowd at least once
asciilifeform: 'regime change begins at home' -- popular picket sign in bush II era
asciilifeform: hyperborea, and atlantis, in coalition.
asciilifeform: '...employees of the DFAS were routinely told by superiors to take “unsubstantiated change actions” commonly referred to as “plugging” the numbers. These “plugs” – which amounted to falsifying financial records – were then used to create the appearance that the military’s financial data matched that of the U.S. Treasury Department’s numbers when discrepancies in the financial data couldn’t be accounted for, acco
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i quit reading after that.
asciilifeform: t would be much better to find ways to get better communicate with the Foundation so we can stay on the same page. It’s not going to be easy for the Foundation to repair its image with the Bitcoin community, but they seem intent on trying.'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: from the alleged tat blog: 'I had a chat with Bruce Fenton, of the Bitcoin Foundation, where I thanked him for representing Bitcoin well in his television interviews, as the media swarmed around the Craig Wright announcements yesterday. While we have many things to criticize the Foundation for, and Bruce himself in some regards, I was tipsy enough to realize that we can’t just keep writing off their efforts, and that i
