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mircea_popescu: anyway, the best thing hilary could do for the cause of lulz if she won would be\
mircea_popescu: the way it wouldn't be for obama. he was, throughout, a loser. losing doesn't affect losers as it affects winners.
mircea_popescu: for which reason, not-winning is a kiss of death for him.
mircea_popescu: copypaste i think the perception (at least my perception at any rate) is that he's a momentum player. all he has on his side is the image of winning, no further substance.
mircea_popescu: copypaste> 18BTC on no << his fortunes markedly changed past coupla weeks it seems.
mircea_popescu: it's just enough for half a concentration camp, really.
mircea_popescu: it is a bitcoin expert / gavin economist / miner leader and otherwise important reddit person.
mircea_popescu: trinque this sounds like a bug in either the signing process or the btcd.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'world is small' << for any definition of "world" that excludes most idiots.
mircea_popescu: ftr, that's where the now-famous first of many "calculate nth decimal of transcendent without calculating the others" thing was published
mircea_popescu: "wtf is with these large buildings they're all ugly in the same way"
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i was walking with a woman i walked with all over the fucking world, and she spontaneoushly said
mircea_popescu: whereas the correct solution is to stick to the math. computers are fucking tractors not farm designers.
mircea_popescu: trinque> also, I don't see sendrawtransaction in trb's list o' commands... wat do? << cry all the way home, we don't have it yet. backport it ? :D
mircea_popescu: idence of a polynomial method to estimate a transcendent" is really good enough. and it exhibits all those important properties : such as, you can ~actually~ use infinite message, and you can also use any arbitrary padding you like, up to infinity - the hash function won't complain. and you can want it to shit out any block size you want it to shit out - also won't complain, but give EQUALLY MEANINGFUL results. whether
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> i will prolly care. on the train, some time soon. << the reason i give it is mostly didactic. it plainly shows what i mean re proper use of math and treating your computer like a tool to do a job rather than treating your job as something to be adjusted to fit the computer without having to delve into complexities and subtleties of number theory etc. something as commonplace as "use the intervals of conf
mircea_popescu is still curious to hear how people'd attack, if anyone cares.
mircea_popescu: fuck the fucking computing-centring paradigm in crypotography
mircea_popescu: because we're specifically collecting hte noise of the formula against the text and its mirror, rather than pi itself.
mircea_popescu: anyway - being able to calculate pi itself does not actually help here.
mircea_popescu: you took a second to answer after my 2nd line, minutes after the first produced nothing! timing attack on your brain!
mircea_popescu: it is apparently a lot easier to follow math in words than in symbols, EVEN FOR YOU
mircea_popescu: (basically - they're the classical (archimedan!) approximations of pi, for the text and reversed text, to an arbitrary precision. makes for an eminently tunable hashfunction)
mircea_popescu: (and from 1 i see you like small blocks just abour as much as i do)
mircea_popescu: (V3 - V4) and finally d) return blocksize digits from the key-th position in H.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you feel like entertaining some crackpottery, suppose a hash function defined as follows : a) calculate PM ; pM ; P!M ; p!M where P and p are the perimeters of polygons of K sides circumscribing and inscribed respectively in the same circle and !M is the bitwise negation of M ; b) calculate V1 = 2pMPM/(PM+pM) ; V2 = sqrt(pMPM) ; V3 = 2p!MP!M/(P!M+p!M) ; V4 = sqrt(p!MP!M) ; c) calculate H = (V1 - V2) *
mircea_popescu: anyway - it's not that i don't like paper otp, or otp generally. it's that if that's the best you can do, you should have been a clockmaker
mircea_popescu: anyway : best ux ever in a mechanical cryptological machine. you could use as many slabs per message as you felt like.
mircea_popescu distinctly recalls the very smoothly polished travel rod
mircea_popescu: dja understand how this thing looked or am i not explaining very well ?
mircea_popescu: wasn't very good in that it went back and forth over the distance
mircea_popescu: basically it had a place you placed the clay fragment in, and a rod which traveled the cracked surface.
mircea_popescu: that's not it. it basically was a mechanical device, worked sort-of like the scytale except on a chunk of a clay item