asciilifeform: other thing is, the problem goes a little deeper. one might craft, for instance, a filter which eats mircea_popescu's www and substitutes hitlerine signatures for all of the signatures contained therein.

asciilifeform: my original observation, though, stands - the time to stop thinking of pgp 64bit fp as 'the man' is not when arbitrarily colliding sha1 costs a penny! it is now. ☟︎

asciilifeform has intended to produce one for a long while, but it is not a priority presently

asciilifeform: with a modest expenditure of cpu.

asciilifeform: that is, the idea was that it is not necessary to meet in the flesh to form a working relation

asciilifeform: the part that bugs me is that the fundamental premise of public key crypto is a kind of downer

asciilifeform: instead it'd be a funkspiel between hitler and mr schmuck, the latter having believed that he is speaking to mircea_popescu

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: except the ideal scenario for firing this weapon is precisely a case where the resulting message never reaches mircea_popescu

asciilifeform: (it is conceivable that one might produce a key which will verify mircea_popescu's signed body of works, but which, if encrypted to, resulting ciphertext could be read both by mircea_popescu AND by hitler.)

asciilifeform: really, it is 'key plus body of signed material' is a man.

asciilifeform: and anyone else who'd make a satisfying splat.

asciilifeform: pattern: folks who 1) are somehow interesting (german number theorists, etc) 2) have a very threadbare, if at all present, volume of published signed material 3) communicate their key to other people largely in the form of a fingerprint

asciilifeform: as to where the bullet might be aimed, the phuctor dataset suggests a certain pattern

asciilifeform: the chore that everybody here has been putting off into indefinite future - that of ~actually distributing one's entire modulus~ - is a necessary thing. ☟︎

asciilifeform: so, generate something like a reasonable modulus, and then proceed.

asciilifeform: it'll be a 'key'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cost of a sha1 collision is less than a year of schmuck pay at this point.

asciilifeform: 'A V4 fingerprint is the 160-bit SHA-1 hash of the octet 0x99, followed by the two-octet packet length, followed by the entire Public-Key packet starting with the version field. The Key ID is the low-order 64 bits of the fingerprint.'

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-10-2015#1294954 << and since no one seems to have picked up on what this means, i suppose i must now draw a picture. ☝︎

asciilifeform: in uncle al schwart's immortal words, 'you will hear, from behind a wood panelled set of doors, 'call in the lab nigger'; and start working on your cv'

asciilifeform: the heat from this burning furniture, and pianos, warms a host of lice and mice - patent lawyers, marketronicists, etc

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-10-2015#1294670 << without having to perform any necromancy or wield crystal ball, i can tell you how it will go - precisely like the pharma pain of 1990s-present, where a corp is bought (present-day monsanto shares nothing at all with the monsanto that sold the first LED) - and 'useless eaters' like r&d folk are sacked to pad shareholder pockets ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: could stand up in carpet and build a kind of house-of-cards

asciilifeform: square, about the size of a man's palm

asciilifeform: there was a massive box of'em

asciilifeform: as a child i played with father's set of glass filters from his colour photo days in su army

asciilifeform: colour is a bitch.

asciilifeform: i usedto have a real camera, sold years ago.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller is posting from a time warp ?

asciilifeform: i picked the thing up because - like a total chump - i saw 'carl zeiss' on the chassis

asciilifeform: it's a trapezoidal chimera

asciilifeform: (came with a bag of batteries, too)

asciilifeform: and yeah, i have a thing that goes in a mains socket and eats the battery

asciilifeform: (it will still turn its wheels, at least for a while...)

asciilifeform: (what's a dungeon if not a tower with flipped sign bit)

asciilifeform: it's more of a dungeon than a tower

asciilifeform: generally this results in a box where external display jacks are unusable under linux

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: optimus, is a very special turd where 2d vga chip tries to share a DAC with 3d gpu

asciilifeform: what's in a 'speedball' anyway ??

asciilifeform: for a variety of good reasons.

asciilifeform: the one caveat re: erdos is that he was unusual for being a ~confessed~ dope-maths fella

asciilifeform: correct use of dope is a talent given to few

asciilifeform does not think that this is a feat generally duplicable