asciilifeform: well, there is 'Если немца убил твой брат, Если немца убил сосед, — Это брат и сосед твой мстят, А тебе оправданья нет. За чужой спиной не сидят, Из чужой винтовки не мстят.' (tm) (r)
asciilifeform: there were no 'gender comment commits', not only in, e.g., system v unix, but in symbolics 'genera' (smbx corp employed, interestingly, a multitude of chix, some of whom appear in my bookcase even now)
asciilifeform: and not, as they usually contend, simply M units of unlucky, for M == number of maggots
asciilifeform: fact: folks who share their bed with maggots are different, in fundamental and interesting ways, from those who do not
asciilifeform: not only is it a mistake to ask the maggots, but likewise it is mistake to ask the maggot-farmer
asciilifeform: this inevitably brings to mind the characters in BingoBoingo's links, who curse doctor for going to the root cause of bedridden maggot farm
asciilifeform: it is a kind of forced/nudged idiotarianism, via os architecture, useland does not have the direct access to the hardware (incl. the scheduler) to force a proper sampling of whatever hardware rng
asciilifeform: if there is anything one cannot accuse insects of, it is lack of economy.
asciilifeform: they 'hired the cheapest soothsayer' !!111
asciilifeform: hey they're genius exam takers, whaddayaexpect, 'we want to pass ent' 'how to pass' 'whiten' 'done'
asciilifeform: testing whitened bits which may or may not even have actual physical entropy behind them is ~useless.
asciilifeform: otherwise you get slipped the wonderfully entropic digits of some transcendental constant and that'll be it.
asciilifeform: to compactly rephrase, entropy testing is only useful when you ~know the design of the rng~
asciilifeform: (recall, e.g., digits of pi, pass the ent tests.)
asciilifeform: it is useless to test rng that is, to steal hanbot's phrasing, 'an unknown mixture of fact and hogwash'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-03#1513709 << the obvious reason: at this point, even the lamest system rng (urandom, etc) are 'whitened' and trivially pass the tests, while having anywhere from 0 to whatever actual hardware entropic content☝︎
asciilifeform expected this idiocy to pop up at some point.
asciilifeform: fabio__: understand, also, that someone who offers you a more complicated (i.e. more moving parts) cryptosystem without ~justification~, is attempting to compromise your security, no less than if he were stalking in your garden under the cover of night bristling with cameras and antennae
asciilifeform: in the elementary sense of 'number of ops required to solve avg case'
asciilifeform: it is, for instance, not proven that rsa reduces to difficulty of factoring integers, or what complexity class factoring is in.
asciilifeform: fabio__: what kind of details are you interested in ? there is no reduction-to-complexity-class proof of hardness for either cryptosystem.
asciilifeform: nosuchlabswww: lemme guess, you clicked 'contact' link on the www. presumably you have something to say ?
asciilifeform: fabio__: the only cryptosystem for which any rigorous analysis exists is vernam (otp).
asciilifeform: statistical methods are wholly inappropriate here.
asciilifeform: or, alternatively, flown 10,001 times to his death, unreported.
asciilifeform: there is not such a thing as 'we used for x years and no reported problem.' quite conceivably the correct yamamoto has simply not yet flown.
asciilifeform: when enemy is perenially 'one step ahead', and 'no one knows why.'
