asciilifeform: and here we are, somewhere after this.
asciilifeform: which enemy, naturally, took full advantage of
asciilifeform: which led to a pile of corpses and a reaction.
asciilifeform: age of cheap transistor had a faux-renaissance where folks used the cheap transistors for elaborate self-delusion - 'this is sooo complicated, nobody!1111 could crack'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i am quite certain that you knew this, but pretty much all published block ciphers date to the dark ages, when transistor was painfully expensive
asciilifeform: and... but why go into it here. anybody who wants this, can think on his own.
asciilifeform: emitting two sets of ~same static waveform at once
asciilifeform: some of the variants i've envisioned include.... a certain kind of battery, where ion gradients vary when a molten electrolyte cools, and it then cut into 2+ strips, and 'burned' like a candle
asciilifeform: (the former being an exercise in self-delusion, the latter - adds complexity and potentially buggy or noisy circuitry)
asciilifeform: e.g., 1 and 2 imply that there are sufficient bits per entropy without having to resort to whitenings or distillation
asciilifeform: each of these 5 pieces contains a number of sub-boojums
asciilifeform: 5) cannot under any circumstances be ~read~ all at once or quickly enough to be considered 'all at once' for practical purposes of enemy capture & device switcheroo
asciilifeform: 4) are, ideally, erased irrevocably by so doing, or at least erasable in reasonably small chunks (when used) and destroyable all at once (when you pull the pin)
asciilifeform: 2) are born on the two (or more) carriers at the same time
asciilifeform: 1) the random bits are born all at once, rather than written in one (or machine word) at a time from some specially-built electronic widget
asciilifeform: however, i do find it... interesting, that it is not ~entirely~ empty, but the intersection of it and implementations ~you can get~ .... IS.
