asciilifeform: 'I can't believe no one ever thought of a way how browser can authenticate a session without giving out secrets to anyone, including javascript.' << pgp ?
asciilifeform: 'Город гнева, город стона, / Где во тьме горят кресты, / Где ты будешь вне закона / На глазах у Вашингтона, / Если кожей черен ты!'
asciilifeform: and of course, known to every su schoolboy, the canonical: 'Изуверскими делами Он теперь известен всем - В диком штате Алабаме Страшный город Бирмингем....' (tm) (r) (mihalkov)
asciilifeform: 'By coming forward almost a decade later after these letters, this group of officers who witnessed drugs and weapons being planted and had the moral courage to bravely do the right thing are hoping the United States Department of Justice will intervene. The want a specially appointed federal prosecutor, from outside the state of Alabama....'
asciilifeform: mirce_popescu et al : if i ever dementia into the 'the hackathons where great work happens' level plz take me behind the shed & shoot. k thx
asciilifeform: oup and then repaired again by Fujisaki, Okamoto, Pointcheval and Stern....'
asciilifeform: 'PSS is harder to implement because it uses randomness -- randomness is hard on many embedded systems like smart cards. The most proclaimed advantage of PSS is that it has a "security proof" with, apparently, a rather tight reduction (see this page for some references). Security proofs are not an easy subject; the proof for OAEP (the encryption padding which is like the "sister protocol" to PSS) was found out to be wrong by Sh
asciilifeform: public transport here, esp. outside of the handful of mega-conurbations, is a joke.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nato put some sweat into electro-catalytic synthesis of jet fuel, etc. but usa lives and dies by the 'plebes in cars' thing. and if there's been any serious push against this, it is a very well-kept secret
asciilifeform: hell, iirc india today has more active track than usa.
asciilifeform: it blew me away when i learned that usa, home of the original mega-railroads, was today a rail-backwater like africa
asciilifeform has always wondered why, precisely, this never happens
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu should enjoy the low background of the southern hem. while it lasts then...
asciilifeform: so where is 'risk of not being used' in petro ?
asciilifeform: once you subtract the eco-lysenkoist claptrap (e.g., 'renewable') - what's left is, what, fischer-tropsch? the fission machines that the west has forgotten how to build or maintain ?
asciilifeform: from my admittedly-limited but not entirely nonexistent meatwot intelligence - saud is not actually sovereign: all of the princelings speak english, a good chunk live in and never leave usa, park their moneys in nato.
asciilifeform: today reversing a xilinx chip is largely a waste of time, a good chunk of the functionality is in quite un-fpgaish special-purpose chunks which get reshuffled with each new model
asciilifeform: (they had not yet, then, hit upon the strategy of simply moving things around on the die to make this kind of effort meaningless)
asciilifeform: 'When people criticise meritocracy, they're not criticising the concept of treating contributions based on their merit. They're criticising the idea that humans are sufficiently self-aware that they will be able to identify and reject every subconscious prejudice that will affect their treatment of others. ' << why in satan's green earth am i reading this ??
